Etymology

debauchery

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Today it means: An excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous and immoral activities; involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition. Full definition →

English debauch ← Middle French desbaucher ← Old French desbauchier
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Old Frenchbauche
  8. Old Frenchdesbauchier
  9. Middle Frenchdesbaucher
  10. Englishdebauch
  11. English todaydebauchery

From debauch + -ery. First use appears c. 1642.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.