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profligacy|ˈprɒflɪgəsɪ|
[f. next: see -acy 3.]
The quality, state, or condition of being profligate.
1. Self-abandonment to dissipation; reckless licentiousness or debauchery; shameless vice.
1738Bolingbroke Patriot King (1749) 181 Hitherto it has been thought the highest pitch of profligacy to own, instead of concealing crimes, and to take pride in them, instead of being ashamed of them. 1767Cowper Let. to J. Hill 16 June, [The election] occasions the most detestable scene of profligacy and riot that can be imagined. 1815J. Scott Vis. Paris xii. (ed. 2) 203 The decorum of behaviour which profligacy preserves in the public places of Paris. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 253 In..the Daitaleis, Aristophanes attacked the profligacy and immodesty of the rising generation.
2. Reckless prodigality or extravagance; wastefulness; hence, immoderate profusion or abundance.
1860Emerson Cond. Life, Wealth (1861) 69 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money, but in spending them off the line of your career. 1886P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 121 The prodigious luxuriance and profligacy of the botany of the tropics. 1900Edin. Rev. July 182 This profusion or profligacy of pictures. |