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Webster 1913 Edition
Dissoluteness
Dis′so-lute-ness
,Noun.
State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.
Chivalry had the vices of
dissoluteness
. Bancroft.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dissoluteness
DISSOLUTENESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
dissoluteness
dissoluteness
English
Noun
dissoluteness (usually uncountable, plural dissolutenesses)
- (obsolete) Lack of restraint; excess.
- Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.17:
- Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.17: