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Definition of Debauchery
1. Noun. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Generic synonyms: Revel, Revelry
Derivative terms: Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Debauch, Debauch, Orgiastic, Orgiastic, Riot, Riotous
Definition of Debauchery
1. n. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
Definition of Debauchery
1. Noun. Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) Seduction from duty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debauchery
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Debauchery
Literary usage of Debauchery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"The term 'debauchery' is not a legal or technical term. ... The term 'debauchery,'
as used in this statute, has an idea of sexual immorality; that is, ..."
2. In a Time of Torture: The Assault on Justice in Egypt's Crackdown on by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Human Rights Watch (2004)
"Article 13: Any person who habitually works or resides in premises used for
debauchery or prostitution and is aware of this is to be punished by ..."
3. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... by employing in riot, excess and debauchery, what he purchased with so much
industry, prudence and wisdom. This is the true •way to snow the sense you ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... upon this festival with more than his usual sarcasm and severity, on account
of its disgusting licence and debauchery. (Annul. xiv. c. 15. ..."
5. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... atheistical wretch, whose life is a continued practice of all manner of vice
and debauchery. And since the ruin of my relative, another lady of my ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... appears to have been which is for him so far from being a detestable vice that
parents are the first to introduce their children to debauchery. ..."
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