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Wantonness

WANTONNESS, n. 1. Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery. --As sad as night, only for wantonness. 2. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn...

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WANTONNESS, n.

1. Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery.

--As sad as night, only for wantonness.

2. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint.

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.

3. Lasciviousness; lewdness. Rom 8. II Peter 2.

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