dissolutenessn.
The quality of being dissolute (in various senses).† 1. Remissness, negligence, carelessness. Obsolete.† 2. Absence or abandonment of restraint; wantonness, excess, extravagance. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > indiligence or remissness
slacknessc897
forswundennessc1175
sweeringa1300
lachesa1393
lachedness1484
indiligence1496
lachousness1496
slacking1542
remissness1570
dissoluteness1576
disassiduity1613
insedulity1679
slothingc1690
inapplication1721
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 97 She chargeth Anthonie with dissolutenesse in duetie.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 356 This our dissolutenesse and negligence.
1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 558 Our dissoluteness hath beene too palpable, in praying God's blessing vpon our endeuours.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun]
unimetec888
unmethelOE
overdeeda1200
unmetheshipa1250
outragec1325
ragec1330
reveriec1350
delavinessc1380
recolagea1400
dissolutionc1400
superfluityc1405
wantonness1448
intemperancy1532
intemperacy?1541
untemperance?1541
intemperance1547
excess1552
immoderateness1569
intemperateness1571
unbridledness1571
inordinateness1577
untemperateness1578
dissoluteness1580
acrasia1590
acrasy1590
intemperature1602
inordination1615
inordinancya1617
immoderation1640
extravagancy1651
debauch1672
extravagance1676
incontinency1715
extravaganza1754
incontinence1836
unmeasuredness1864
1580 J. Hatcher in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 32 (note) Which requireth rather diligence in study, then dissoluteness in plays.
1667 A. Marvell Let. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 312 The dissoluteness of grief, the prodigality of sorrow.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 51 All manner of odd Postures and Gestures up to the height of an Antick Dissoluteness.
3. Looseness of manners and morals; licentiousness, profligacy.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [noun]
reveriec1350
wantonnessc1390
recolagea1400
unthriftinessc1450
dissoluteness1549
profligateness1668
profligacy1693
unvirtuousness1865
virtuelessness1891
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun]
ribaldyc1300
riotc1330
ribaldry1389
riotingc1390
riotry?a1400
wildnessc1400
arrioutc1410
ramageness1440
ribaldise?c1450
unthriftinessc1450
ramagec1485
riotousness?1535
royet1542
dissoluteness1549
ruffianing1549
riotness1553
wildernessa1616
debauchery1642
profligateness1668
profligacy1693
rakishness1737
rakism1777
profligation1805
rouéism1828
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > debauchery
riotc1330
dissolutionc1400
dissoluteness1549
debauchment1617
debauchery1642
debauch1673
dissipation1785
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rev. viii. f. xi A..whyppe, whiche shoulde scourge and punyshe the christendome fallyng into synne and dyssolutenes.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 254 The dissolutenesse of the Priests and people of those dayes.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iii. 170 People who would spend their lives in Debauchery and Dissoluteness.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 456 The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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