inordinancyn.
rare.
= inordinacy n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun]
unimetec888
unmethelOE
overdeeda1200
unmetheshipa1250
outragec1325
ragec1330
reveriec1350
delavinessc1380
recolagea1400
dissolutionc1400
superfluityc1405
wantonness1448
intemperancy1532
intemperacy?1541
untemperance?1541
intemperance1547
excess1552
immoderateness1569
intemperateness1571
unbridledness1571
inordinateness1577
untemperateness1578
dissoluteness1580
acrasia1590
acrasy1590
intemperature1602
inordination1615
inordinancya1617
immoderation1640
extravagancy1651
debauch1672
extravagance1676
incontinency1715
extravaganza1754
incontinence1836
unmeasuredness1864
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > condition of being undue or unwarrantable > quality of being inordinate
inordinateness1577
inordinacya1617
inordinancya1617
a1617 P. Baynes Christian Lett. (1620) sig. N7v No such inordinancy of griefe.
1674 Govt. Tongue iii. §3. 109 It gives..license to all sensual inordinancies.
1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. (1843) 47 The wild inordinancy of them who make their own private principle..the rule of scripture interpretation.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. ii. 58 In order to reform this inordinancy of his desires.
1955 R. Niebuhr Self & Dramas of Hist. (1956) 29 Hobbes..could regard the..reason..as the cause of the inordinancy of human ambitions.
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