单词 | riotness |
释义 | riotnessn. rare after early 17th cent. The quality or state of being riotous; (in early use) esp. licentiousness, dissipation. ΘΚΠ 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 1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados viii. Prol. f. clxxxxiiv Throw riotnes [a1522 Cambr. roytnes] and rauing, that made myne ene reil. 1584 in J. Strype Life J. Whitgift (1718) iii. 218 Thy Lawyers, Merchants, and Yeomen, delight in Riotness and Belly-chear. c1600 Ungracious Son iii, in T. Evans Old Ballads (1784) III. 276 Through excessive rioutness..he was three times more in debt, Than all his wealth was worth. 1650 in W. Cramond Church of Urquhart (?1900) 29 Others..were necessitate either to sleep out ther riotnes and drunkennes or els to be caryed home. 1891 J. W. Buel Living World 670 Similar riotness of vegetable life in other lands and in ither times. 1898 Hist. & Proc. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. II. 245 Young men that tended to riotness, young women that sighed for fashionable dress. 2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 30 Aug. 5 [He] claimed the prison authorities failed to prevent the consumption of ‘jail brew’ which ‘resulted in continued widespread drunken riotness’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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