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wantonly, adv.|ˈwɒntənlɪ|
[-ly2.]
In a wanton manner. a. Lewdly, lasciviously; voluptuously, luxuriously; lavishly.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vi. (Thomas) 466 Þe flesche þat we fed here maste vantonly in daynttis sere. c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 381 And wantownely agayn with hym she pleyde. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xxxii. (1869) 87 Wantounliche thou wilt hose him, and take him noble robes. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxii. 72 The smylynges and fayre shewes of their eyen, which wauntonly they caste full often vpon that yonge knyght. 1538Elyot Dict., Delicatus, delycate, wantonlye broughte vppe. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 531 The bishop saw..that vittailes were not wantonly consumed, nor vainely spent. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 89 Some of our young men..would talk wantonly with them [the women]. 1712Steele Spect. No. 466 ⁋3 The flippant insipidly Gay and wantonly Forward, whom you behold among Dancers.
b. Frolicsomely, sportively, playfully, light-heartedly.
1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 11249 She held a gloue vantounly, And tournyd yt fful ffetysly Aboute hyr ffyngres vp & doun. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 37, I beheld the pretty fische vantounly stertland vitht there rede vermeil fynnis. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. viii. 448 She..oft in-Isles the shore, as wantonly she flowes. 1621Fletcher Pilgrim v. iv. 1 How wantonly The wind blows through the leaves, and courts, and playes with 'em! 1663Cowley Country Mouse 9 A Mouse of high degree, which lost his way, Wantonly walking forth to take the Air. 1777Sir W. Jones Seven Fountains 37 Some wantonly were tripping in a ring.
c. Recklessly, unadvisedly; without proper excuse or motive; without regard for right or consequences; in a way that betrays delight in wrong-doing or mischief, wilfully.
1390Gower Conf. II. 35 For he the hors withoute lawe The carte let aboute drawe Wher as hem liketh wantounly. c1400Destr. Troy 3496 Why wrought ye so wantonly in your wilde yre? 1566Stapleton Ret. Untruths to Jewel iii. 90 He denieth Christ wantonly. 1675Dryden Aurengz. iv. (1676) 58 But do not wantonly my passion move. 1749Fielding Tom Jones ii. vi, To pardon great criminals wantonly, without any reason whatever. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 229 The Goth..expressed..his lively sense of the insult so wantonly offered to his person. 1801Helen M. Williams St. Mann. Fr. Republic II. 217 The [Spartan] tribunal which condemned a boy to death for wantonly plucking out the eyes of a bird. 1883Law Times 20 Oct. 407/2 Preventing a litigant without a case from wantonly harassing his opponent. 1888A. H. Smith Catal. Engr. Gems Brit. Mus. 228 The [Portland] vase was wantonly broken on February 7, 1845, by a scene-painter, named William Lloyd. |