licentiouslyadv.
/lʌɪˈsɛnʃəsli/, U.S. /laɪˈsɛnʃəsli/ In a licentious manner.
1. Without regard to limit or rule; loosely.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [adverb] > with disregard of rule or custom
licentiously1561
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adverb] > in other specific style
naturally1557
licentiously1561
tragically1567
cosily1721
mock-heroically1846
naturalistically1864
declamatorily1898
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Pref. If they will haue the boundes of the same Fathers..to be stedfastly kept: why doo they..so licentiously passe them?
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vi. Ji.ijv/2 The Nazarites..had heretofore liued too licentiously.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iv. 62 Our auncient rymers..vsed these Cesures either very seldome..or else very licentiously.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. i. 67 Lycogenes vttered this sparingly..but his fellowes did more licenciously presse the Kings dishonour.
1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 177 When I am writing to you..I..wander licentiously out of my sphere.
1804 Ann. Rev. 2 19/2 No poem was ever so licentiously translated as the English Lusiad.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 1/2 Discussion..would otherwise have been licentiously prolonged.
2. Without regard to law, decorum, or morality; lawlessly, outrageously. Now rare.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adverb]
contemptuously1517
licentiously1591
lawlesslya1616
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > with excessive lack of restraint
wildly1561
licentiously1591
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 189 Licentiously to commit all enormities.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 58 That no man should aspire to the Crowne licentiously.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 14 That every one might do therein licentiously, all that which it pleaseth him.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. ii. 43 Let them act as licentiously as they will.
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 12 Without shewing their right to the spot: they licentiously chose it.
3. Lasciviously, lewdly.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adverb]
untowelya1230
jollilyc1400
wantonlyc1405
small?c1450
nice?1544
loosely1548
licentiously1561
liberally1596
naughtily1609
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. 1. f. 26v I speake not..how licentiously painters and caruers haue in this point shewed their wantonnesse.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxx. 7) They licentiously folow their owne lusts.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 68 It is not good to touch a woman. To which she answers; not inordinately or licentiously.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 159/2 The Phoenician and Syrian female divinities were worshipped licentiously.
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