单词 | debauchery |
释义 | debaucheryn. 1. Vicious indulgence in sensual pleasures. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] ribaldyc1300 riotc1330 ribaldry1389 riotingc1390 riotry?a1400 wildnessc1400 arrioutc1410 ramageness1440 ribaldise?c1450 unthriftinessc1450 ramagec1485 riotousness?1535 royet1542 dissoluteness1549 ruffianing1549 riotness1553 wildernessa1616 debauchery1642 profligateness1668 profligacy1693 rakishness1737 rakism1777 profligation1805 rouéism1828 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > debauchery riotc1330 dissolutionc1400 dissoluteness1549 debauchment1617 debauchery1642 debauch1673 dissipation1785 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 45 What with truanting and debaushery. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 146 Those that excuse youth's deboichery. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 46 The nobillity and courtiers, who did not quite abandon their debosheries. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 13 Noah himself..fell into the Debaucheries of Wine. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 109 Unworthy favourites, the companions of his debaucheries. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vii. iii. 155 He was..fond of coarse debauchery and low society. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > going astray > condition of being led astray seduction?1531 seducement1605 debauchment1606 debauchery1713 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 31 Mar. 2/1 To contrive the Debauchery of your own Child. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 189. ⁋6 There are men that boast of debaucheries of which they never had address to be guilty. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 78 The republic of Paris will endeavour indeed to compleat the debauchery of the army. View more context for this quotation 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii 99 In no case was an election questioned on account of treating, or, as it was then called, debauchery at elections. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1642 |
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