About The Word Debauchery
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Debauchery
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What's The Definition Of Debauchery?
[n] a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Synonyms | Synonyms for Debauchery: bacchanal | bacchanalia | debauch | drunken revelry | orgy | riot | saturnalia Related Terms | Find terms related to Debauchery: carousal | carouse | debauch | debauchment | dissipation | dissoluteness | fastness | free living | gallantry | high living | killing pace | libertinage | libertinism | license | licentiousness | orgy | profligacy | rakishness | riotous living | saturnalia | unbridledness | venery | wenching | whoring | wildness Debauchery In Webster's Dictionary \De*bauch"er*y\, n.; pl. {Debaucheries}.
1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or
allegiance.
The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the
debauchery of the army. --Burke.
2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially,
excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality;
habitual lewdness.
Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. --Sprat.
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