How To Use Licentiousness In A Sentence
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The drink merely lubricated the licentiousness.
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Such discourse sanctions heresy and licentiousness; worldlings and the indevout applaud it, the tepid seem to consent to it, and the falsely devout approve it; it is a scandal to the weak, and a dishonor to religion.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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Terentia, the divorced wife of Cicero; and there subsisted between the two husbands a kind of rivalship from that cause, to which was probably added some degree of animosity, on account of their difference in politics, during the late dictatorship of Julius Caesar, by whom Sallust was restored to the senate, whence he had been expelled for licentiousness, and was appointed governor of Numidia.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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He called his iniquitous vices, follies -- his licentiousness, love of pleasure -- his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called "fashion" -- the fashion of the young men of the day.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power.
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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He called his iniquitous vices, follies his licentiousness, love of pleasure his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called ‘fashion’ the fashion of the young men of the day.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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Passionate Man is not to be so satisfied; and the time was fully come for the rise of some fierce spirit, who should change the tinsel theology of the crucifix for the iron religion of the sword: who should blow in the ears of the slumbering West the shrill war-blast of Eastern fervencies; who should exchange the dull rewards of canonization due to penance, or an after-life voluntary humiliation under pseudo-saints and angels, for the human and comprehensible joys of animal appetite and military glory: who should enlist under his banner all the frantic zeal, all the pent-up licentiousness, all the heart-burning hatreds of mankind, stifled either by a positive barbarism, or the incense-laden cloud of a scarcely-masked idolatry.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith
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Shepard posits a jungle paradise where sexual licentiousness is imposed by the environment, leaving humans helpless to do anything but engage wholeheartedly in the perverse.
REVIEW: Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
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Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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‘Yes, Sir, the licentiousness of one woman of quality makes more noise than that of a number of women in lower stations; then, Sir, you are to consider the malignity of women in the city against women of quality, which will make them believe any thing of them, such as that they call their coachmen to bed.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Jesus Christ
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There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.
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'Yes, Sir, the licentiousness of one woman of quality makes more noise than that of a number of women in lower stations; then, Sir, you are to consider the malignity of women in the city against women of quality, which will make them believe any thing of them, such as that they call their coachmen to bed.
Life of Johnson
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Conversely, if this authority and example do not emanate from the top ranks of society, corruption and licentiousness of the sort traditionally associated with a diseased aristocracy will infect the entire social body.
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An eloquent statesman, now gone to his rest, had come into public life at a period when the mad fervour of the French revolution had inclined men to think that liberty, as they termed licentiousness and anarchy, was the greatest blessing bestowed by God upon man, had himself strongly imbibed that feeling and did much to impress it especially upon Kentucky and Maryland.
Our cause in harmony with the purposes of God in Christ Jesus : a sermon preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Thursday, September 18th, 1862, being the day set forth by the President of the Confederate States, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving, for o
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Surely nothing else but a carelesse licentiousnesse to deride and contemne a poore and vnknowen Nation, and such other like vices.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
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Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
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Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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In Galatians 5: 19-21 the list is headed by sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, and idolatry.
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Moreover, there was the seclusion of the island, and the sense - from this almost hyperborean perspective - of Edinburgh and London being distant, southern cities, veritable tropical hotbeds of steamy licentiousness.
Jura Duty
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Thus, a vast concern is expressed for the liberty of the press, and the utmost abhorrence of its licentiousness: but then, by the licentiousness of the press is meant every disclosure by which any abuse is brought to light and exposed to shameby the liberty of the press is meant only publications from which no such inconvenience is to be apprehended; and the fallacy consists in employing the sham approbation of liberty as a mask for the real opposition to all free discussion.
Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
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Licentiousness would involve rape because one of the definitions of licentiousness is lacking sexual restraint.
Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage.
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George III was a lugubriously unprogressive monarch roused by Fox's licentiousness; Pitt was the dreary juvenile hero of our new foreign secretary; neither would have expected to find the liberal and modern Adonis at their side.
The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance
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In Galatians 5: 19-21 the list is headed by sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, and idolatry.
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According to the same writer, the Gnostics and the Stratiotics equalled the Phibionites in exhibitions of licentiousness, and all three sects mingled horrid pollutions with their mysteries, men and women displaying equal dissoluteness.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Default, unearned respect for culture breeds a decadent cultural licentiousness in which any amount of pretentious nonsense is encouraged and propagated.
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clannishness" but also on the "licentiousness" of the Jewish population, manifesting itself in congregating on the streets, and similar grave crimes.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
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Thus the term licentiousness, which means in a strict sense the wish to do whatever you want, moral or immoral, whether good or bad for you.
Starbucks illustrates the weakness of global economy
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Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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Children are to be found in it as well, waiting till their fathers and mothers are ready to go home, sipping from the glasses of their elders, listening to the coarse language and degrading conversation, catching the contagion of it, familiarising themselves with licentiousness and debauchery.
DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
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He was a boaster of his Vices -- a [illegible] great affecter of licentiousness-and at last got in Love, like a fool, with a Girl, much too good for him.
John Adams diary 17, 16 April - 14 June 1771
