wantonness
Noun
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Noun
wantonness (uncountable)
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV scene ii:
- The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, ch. 16:
- The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV scene ii:
- (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
- 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366:
- These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.
- 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366:
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