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dissoluteness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissoluteness \Dis"so*lute*ness\, n. State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.
Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness.
--Bancroft.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Lack of restraint; excess. 2 Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
WordNet
n. indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures [syn: incontinence, self-gratification]
Usage examples of "dissoluteness".
This, indeed, was more explicitly the doctrine of Aristippus , the father of the Cyrenaics, a sect, however, which sunk into the Epicureans, whose notions plainly led to the dissoluteness so remarkable in the lives of most of them.
And before I had time to look round I had adopted the views on life of the set of authors I had come among, and these views completely obliterated all my former strivings to improve—they furnished a theory which justified the dissoluteness of my life.