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debauchment ? Obs.|dɪˈbɔːtʃmənt|
Also 7 -baush-, -bosh-.
[a. F. débauchement (in Cotgr. des-), f. débaucher to debauch: see -ment.]
1. The action or fact of debauching or corrupting; seduction from duty or virtue.
1606Daniel Queen's Arcadia i. iv, These strange debaushments of our nymphes. 1611Cotgr., Desbauchement, a deboshement. 1625W. B. True School War 64 He first outraged them by the debauchment of their Councellors and subiects. 1685South Serm. (1843) II. xvii. 282 A corruption and debauchment of men's manners.
2. Debauched condition; debauchery; a debauch.
1628Bp. Hall Quo Vadis? §10 They are growne to that height of debauchment as to hold learning a shame to nobility. 1629Earle Microcosm., Honest Fellow (Arb.) 102 A good dull vicious fellow, that complyes well with the deboshments of the time. 1658Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 506 There is a Proneness in unruly Man to run into Debauchments. |