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debauchery|dɪˈbɔːtʃərɪ|
Also 7 debaushery, deboshery, deboichery.
[f. as prec. + -ery.]
1. Vicious indulgence in sensual pleasures.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 309 What with truanting and debaushery. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 146 Those that excuse youth's deboichery. c1665Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (R.), The nobility and courtiers, who did not quite abandon their debosheries. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. i. (1840) 13 Noah himself..fell into the debaucheries of wine. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. 109 Unworthy favourites, the companions of his debaucheries. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 155 He was..fond of coarse debauchery and low society.
†2. Seduction from duty, integrity, or virtue; corruption. Obs.
1713Steele Guardian No. 17 ⁋8 To contrive the debauchery of your child. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 189 ⁋6 There are men that boast of debaucheries of which they never had address to be guilty. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 78 The republick of Paris will endeavour to compleat the debauchery of the army. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. viii 99 In no case was an election questioned on account of treating, or, as it was then called, debauchery at elections. |