wantonness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.

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Examples

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. Henry Fielding

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. Marcus Aurelius

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness. Robert Herrick (poet)

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength. Henry Ward Beecher

Make of thy gentleness thy might: 'Make of thy silence words to shake The long-enthroned kings of earth: Make of thy will the force to break Their towers of wantonness and mirth.' George William Russell

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. Henry Fielding

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