dissoluteness
Noun

dissoluteness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lack of restraint; excess.
  2. Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
      , II.17:
      Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.



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