Crossword clues for wantonness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wantonness \Wan"ton*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of
restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.
--Gower.
The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and
turn them into wantonness.
--Eikon
Basilike.
Young gentlemen would be as sad as night
Only for wantonness.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior. 2 (context countable dated English) A particular wanton act.
WordNet
n. the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon" [syn: abandon, unconstraint]
the quality of being lewd and lascivious [syn: licentiousness]
Usage examples of "wantonness".
He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power.
I seen men go forth in their madness and unthriftiness, and waste the hours of grace and of the sun, rendering to idleness and wantonness and vain sport and pleasure the sum of all they owe to God and to man.
There, unceasing winds toss the sinners aimlessly, just as their unrestrained wantonness tossed them about aimlessly in life.
Towards the evening my Epicurean syndic called on me, and we went to sup with the three nymphs, and for five hours we indulged in every species of wantonness, in which I had a somewhat fertile imagination.
We had a delicious supper at five o'clock, and at eight we went to bed and spent the night in wantonness, but at five in the morning all were ready to start.
Still, we know our own callings, and they are what I consider natural callings, and are not parvarted by vanity and wantonness.
Eas'd however, and relieved by one discharge, he now apply'd himself to sooth, encourage and to put me into humour and patience to bear his next attempt, which he began to prepare and gather force for, from all the incentives of the touch and sight which he could think of, by examining every indi-vidual part of my whole body, which he declared his satis-faction with in raptures of applauses, kisses universally imprinted, and sparing no part of me, in all the eagerest wantonness of feeling, seeing, and toying.
Consequently, the orthodox, both priests and believers, men and women, are now at its mercy, and, thanks to the connivance of the armed force, which refuses to interpose, the rabble satisfy on the proscribed class its customary instincts of cruelty, pillage, wantonness, and destructiveness.
When you read the passage in which Jade Scent, as the leading exponent of the most extraordinary wantonness of all, repays her husband's debts, you will finally realize that the previous few chapters have done well to go too far in their descriptions.