Licentiousness

Definitions

The property of being licentious.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith, whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust⟳ it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ...”

“Early mentality, in initiating phallic worship⟳, was never in any way guilty of licentiousness or obscenity.”

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