licentiousness in English

noun

lack of sexual restraint, lewdness; lawlessness, immorality

Use "licentiousness" in a sentence

1. Profligacy, sloth, licentiousness, gluttony, pride.

2. Licentiousness... idolatry, sorcery... gluttony, and drunkenness.

3. Heedlessness for the precepts of proper behavior; licentiousness.

4. Absent such an understanding, freedom can imply an unbound licentiousness.

5. Loose conduct involves “licentiousness; wantonness; shameless conduct; lewdness of conduct.”

6. This is called a licentiousness not to be tolerated.

7. " Debauched aliens and atheists falling into great licentiousness and leading degenerate lives. "

8. Television, magazines, and movies promote loose conduct —“licentiousness; wantonness; shameless conduct.”

9. And have you thought of the years of licentiousness he inevitably has lived?

10. The reaction against Restoration licentiousness gave a very different tone to the London stage.

11. Many of the older, sourer priests grumbled at the spread of licentiousness and gluttony.

12. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

13. Loose conduct (Greek, a·selʹgei·a) denotes “licentiousness; wantonness; shameless conduct; lewdness of conduct.”

14. The Greek word translated “loose conduct” denotes licentiousness, absence of restraint, indecency, wantonness, shameless conduct.

15. If they are regarded negatively, they may be called "sexual licence" or "licentiousness".

16. Though I myself led a licentious life, the licentiousness of the women nevertheless shocked me.

17. Her licentiousness was entirely passive, reflecting not her own desires but those of the man she was with.

18. No other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness .

19. Pet. 2 And many will follow their licentiousness , because of whom the way of the truth will be reviled.

20. In The Magician of Lublin, his masterpiece, Singer flattens the three major female characters as signs of ugliness, stupidity and licentiousness.

21. Probably you have been spoilt by the West where freedom is licentiousness and where they do not even know, except the few, what real discipline means.

22. Despite a burst of licentiousness in the early 1990s, when pornography and prostitution surged through the country, the sexual revolution has never really taken hold here.

23. 13 let us conduct ourselves Becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy

24. This suggests that, as a people, we do best by protecting our political and economic freedoms and guarding against a culture that sanctions licentiousness.

25. 3 For the time which has passed is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having gone on in licentiousness, lusts, debaucheries, Carousings, drinking bouts, and lawless idolatries

26. Thus, a good such as order when it is Absolutized, becomes tyranny; liberty can become licentiousness; loyalty can degenerate into collaboration with tyranny; parental respect can be transformed into ancestor worship; science can become a goal and not an