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Salaciousness

Salacious \Sa*la"cious\, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.] Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
--Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Sa*la"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.

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salaciousness

n. The state or characteristic of being salacious.

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salaciousness

n. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn: obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salacity]

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But even those wild memories of his mad youth left him unmoved, just as during his last debauch he had exhausted his quota of salaciousness and all he had left was the marvelous gift of being able to remem­ber it without bitterness or repentance.