licentiousnessn.

1568 H. Billingsley tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Learned Comm. Epist. Romanes 441 b Neither let him with overmuche licentiousnes vse what meates he lust.

1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. ii. 165 It is too great licentiousnesse for a seruant to goe out without leaue.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico i. 15 They sometimes come nearer to licentiousness, then liberty.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xviii. 610 Nor can this new Licentiousness of Bleeding be any way defended.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah (ed. 12) Prel. Dissert. 45 The difference..is not to be imputed to the licentiousness of the translator.

1788 H. Walpole Lett. iv. 127 Corneille, Racine, Pope, exploded the licentiousness that reigned before them.

1817 J. Bentham Parl. Reform Catech. (1818) 76 The inconsistency between the licentiousness on this point in this situation, and the comparative strictness in other public situations.

1883 Burgon Revision Revised 31 Nothing else but depravations of the text, the result of inattention or licentiousness.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Hvj Theyr licenciousnes..became more disobedient & wyld.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 14 Such licentiousness or Anarchie is abhorred both of God and nature.

1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons iv. 41 The Custom of accusing the Nobles to the People..having been always lookt upon..as an Effect of Licentiousness.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 325 That licentiousness and anarchy which always follow a relaxation of the moral principles.

1815 J. Mackintosh France in 1815 in Wks. (1846) III. 187 The licentiousness with which they had exercised their saturnalian privileges.

a1852 D. Webster Wks. (1877) II. 392 That authorized licentiousness that trespasses on right.

1586 W. Webbe tr. Horace in Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. K.ii The licenciousnesse of theyr songes..is hurtfull to discipline and good manners.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 51 Though thou have no farther taste of licentiousnesse in thy middle-age.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. xxviii. 233 Gods wrath against..prophanenesse, lewdnesse, and licentiousnesse.

1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 18 That Licentiousness which entered with the Restoration.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xi. 191 Poem..was now declared to be the Bawd of Licentiousness.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xix. 182 The licentiousness and brutality of so old a hand as you.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 194 Among the clergy properly so called..the prevailing offence was not crime, but licentiousness.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 244 Aristophanes accepts licentiousness as a fact which needs no apology.