Meaning of profligation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. defeat; rout; overthrow
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Licentiousness; lewd behavior.
   countable, uncountable
3. The quality of being profligate; extravagance; overabundance.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“the braying of Silenus his Ass, conduced much to the profligation of the Giants”

“This is David's profligation and discomfiture of his enemies; this is an act of true honour, a true victory, a true triumph, to keep the field, to make good one station, and yet put the enemy to flight.”

“Is it for thee to excite Chritian princes (already too much gorged with blood) to the profligation and fearefull slaughter of their owne subjects?”

“I've seen your player show folks, and such like wiggeling and waggeling, and chattering about London pride, and London profligation, and what not – Now I think, if one of them was just to set about talking a little of London kindheartedness and London charity, it would be rather more truerer, and quite as becoming.”

“a site of constant exchange and transition, Columbus Circle is suspended in a state of marginal profligation through numerous fugitive concurrences .”

“The attorney for the defense defines obscene literature as a 'malicious writing on the subject of sex, dsigned and calculated to stir avid curiosity only in the mind of a minor person whi is incapable of exercising mature, independent judgment; deny the true function of the sexual instinct in a human body as that which is necessary for the procreation of the species or cause him to forget the same; turn the flesh into a tool of profligation and dissipation; and bring about irreparable injury to the mind and body of the minor,' and criticizes the decision of the previous court, asserting that the book in question was written with sincere intent.”

“No doubt Siraj had shown traits of ruthlessness, cruelty and profligation before he became a nawab.”

“This profligation of grant programs has tended to confuse objectives, recipients, and administrators.”

“Earlier this century, the preferred way for realists to mitigate any prima facie profligation of scientific entities was by appeal to scientific reductionism — the notion that all (other) sciences or parts of science are reducible to a single science and so, likewise, that all (other) scientific entities are reducible to the entities of this one science.”

“Reach for the Mentat and the prodigious profligation an expansion and exploration into the is.”

“Perhaps this is one of the most extreme cases of profligation that one can cite; nonetheless, one should not equate excessive material possessions with one's quality as a human being and spiritual follower of Christ.”

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