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licentiousness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
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noun licentious .
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noun noun
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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 Athanasius 2007
There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness .
News - latimes.com 2011
Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Jesus Christ 2009
Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog 2009
Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Philosophy 2009
Licentiousness would involve rape because one of the definitions of licentiousness is lacking sexual restraint.
Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage. 2010
Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Theology 2009
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 2009
Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009
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 our manifold victories, and especially for the fields of Manassas and Richmond, Ky., 1862
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