Orgy

Definitions

1. A secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
2. A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
3. An instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity; spree.

Equivalents

Examples

“Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order⟳ took place⟳ at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.”

“The amount of drink⟳ required also surprised me. I arranged for what I thought we should need⟳ for ourselves, and then Mr Goyles spoke up for the crew. I must say⟳ that for him, he did think⟳ of his men. ’We don’t want⟳ anything in the nature of an orgy, Mr Goyles,’ I suggested. ’Orgy!’ replied Mr Goyles; ‘why they’ll take⟳ that little drop in their tea.’”

“Gorea 07: 'OUR DEFENSES WERE USELESS AGAINST GOREA AS IT SWEPT THROUGH OUR EMPIRE IN AN ORGY OF ANNIHILATION.'”

“It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry⟳ series always promised but never delivered.”

“The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end⟳ in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.”

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