It eyes them with an extraordinary 'dissoluteness' -- if you will give that word its literal meaning. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
As to the rest -- what Augustine calls my dissoluteness -- I can't pretend to take your view; a nun's view. ". From Wordnik.com. [Amabel Channice] Reference
Madame, please have them removed, such dissoluteness embarrasses me. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
The opportunities for vice and dissoluteness are really less than at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
An air of idleness, almost dissoluteness and despair, brooded over some of the hives. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
What were further pecuniary exonerations, but deeper plunges into vilifying dissoluteness?. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Both sides became ostentatious; the one made the most of its dissoluteness, and the other of its decorum. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
Zouaves in a few words which clear them from the other two charges, those of dissoluteness and drunkenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Yet we are not celebrating together, and although or perhaps because he is so young, dissoluteness has him in its grip. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
When dissoluteness is condemned, it is so in natural and undisguised terms, but such are never used to stimulate voluptuousness or pleasantry. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness: the aggregate voice is a defiant prayer: but the spirit of the whole is processional. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
It is to be remembered, also, that he was a man of much dissoluteness of morals; and that he paid little attention to the affairs of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
His casual love affairs did not endear him to the elders of the local kirk and created for him a reputation for dissoluteness amongst his neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
We men must share the blame of their ill conduct; it is we who teach them to love riot and dissoluteness and sow the seeds of wickedness in their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
For he shows the method of accusation and purgation elsewhere and in the place where Hector taxes his brother, accusing him of cowardice and dissoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
A period of wild and desperate dissoluteness followed. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Dishonesty and dissoluteness were ashamed and hid their heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1] Reference
It is more reasonable to attribute it to the dissoluteness of his life. From Wordnik.com. [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference
The proprietor was sinking lower and lower in the mire of dissoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
The most frightful dissoluteness of manners was encouraged by the example of the gods themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot] Reference
I want you to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dissoluteness of society. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony] Reference
Hence satirical books and prints, under temperate regulations, check the dissoluteness of the great. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
Nor need we want examples, among the inferior creatures, of dissoluteness, as well as resoluteness, in government. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Tacitus deplores the folly and dissoluteness of the rulers of his nation; he bewails the misfortunes of his country. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Essays] Reference
I may ruin my health by a dissolute life; I may repent of my dissoluteness and be forgiven; but the bad health will remain. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
'The ladies of Lawrence,' he said, 'show a gaudy dissoluteness of taste, and sometimes trespass on moral as well as professional chastity.'. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
On the other hand, he perceived very clearly how easy it would be for him to lapse by degrees of weakened will into a ruinous dissoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
The mass of the Florentine boyhood and youth was no longer left to its own genial promptings towards street mischief and crude dissoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
But she outraged the notions and sentiments of the people more by her unfeminine usurpation of public honors, than by her cruelty or her dissoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
He had paid the penalty of faults not his own, of the haughtiness and ambition of some of his predecessors, of the dissoluteness and baseness of others. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
In the case of Henry of Monmouth, the confession of his own unworthiness is adduced in evidence only of his former habits of dissoluteness and dissipation. From Wordnik.com. [Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth] Reference
For it was not merely libertines, like Marmontel, making a plea for their own dissoluteness, who habitually spoke of these things with inconsiderate levity. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot] Reference
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