Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus Christ] Reference
The licentiousness is a “grand peut-etre,” according to the turn of the times being. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron]
Her innocent mirth was called licentiousness, and the royal splendour which she had been taught to maintain, was looked upon as iniquitous extravagance. From Wordnik.com. [La Vendée] Reference
"licentiousness" -- some other term here applies: make it what you wish. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
LAMB: You used a word earlier, "licentiousness," when it came to Ben Franklin. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin: The Essential Founding Father] Reference
“The 'licentiousness' of the story was not Pope's, ” it was a fact. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals]
The licentiousness is a 'grand peut-etre,' according to the turn of the times being: ” the grossness I deny. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals]
He issued an order declaring that the army was in a state of "licentiousness," and forbidding soldiers to act without the civil authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
Your licentiousness is the cause of our domestic discords, and noble ladies would not have so much cause to mourn if you had learned both to pray and to work. ". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
"licentiousness"; and so it will be if our Government permits homosexual marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Gay/Lesbian Forum] Reference
Drunkenness and licentiousness are frequently the heritage of posterity. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Athenæus of licentiousness and debauchery, particularly when he commanded the Athenian army. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Were it not so, the tendencies to licentiousness in many sons would be stronger than they are. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The four great vices of this age are Sabbath-breaking, gambling, intemperance and licentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Such people can justify any intellectual licentiousness by claiming no higher truth than their perceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Torricelli's Larger Point] Reference
Ye who bask in the smiles of beauty, and voluptuously repose on the soft couch of licentiousness -- beware!. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
It is the offspring of licentiousness, and its advocates merely wish to give legal color to licentious habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
They bemoaned the rise of faction and interest in the political system, and crime and licentiousness in society. From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic: Live From Philadelphia] Reference
Drunkenness, licentiousness, lawlessness, they say are produced by it, already to an extent fearful to consider. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Scientists report that the pharaoh, UgoyrwyI'llgomyn, practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order. From Wordnik.com. [Call Me Naked] Reference
Socrates had expressed his disapprobation of the licentiousness of the comic poets, in their conduct as well as writings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
That in these dark retreats, secluded from censure, and from the knowledge of the world, they might riot in licentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
She was homeless; and without a home there was nothing open to her but that vortex of licentiousness the world seemed pointing her to. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
There was no check upon public licentiousness; but private infidelity, which concerned the peace of families, was punished as a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Forced to find a word for this strange new idea, Japanese translators in the 19th century chose jiyu, which until then had meant licentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Faces Of Freedom] Reference
'The licentiousness of the press has reached to a height which it certainly never attained in any other country, nor even in this at any former period. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
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