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Definition of Licentiously
1. Adverb. In a licentious and promiscuous manner. "This young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously"
Definition of Licentiously
1. Adverb. In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites). ¹
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Definition of Licentiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licentiously
Literary usage of Licentiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Rags in «trips. Went. LIBERAL, adj. Licentious. Lib» rally, licentiously. ~> , •,.
... licentiously ..."
2. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms by Charles Buck (1831)
"... they live licentiously; 10. wie they create, magnify, and pervert the* troubles;
11. when they arraign the cn duct of God as unkind and unjust. ..."
3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... eivo Spenser has very licentiously accented this word on the first syllable.
Before a sleeping giant. Tro. j- Cr., ii, S. Through fowle intemperance ..."
4. Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1891)
"... either very seldome or not at all or els very licentiously, and many times
made their ... licentiously ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"King Alvaro liveth licentiously. ... every man addicting himselfe licentiously
to the libertie of the flesh, and especially the King, who was induced ..."
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