Meanings
plural dissolutenesses
- obsoleteuncountableusuallyLack of restraint; excess.
- uncountableusuallyLooseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.
, II.171 more example
Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 76
Synonyms & antonyms
nounindiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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