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Debauchery definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEBAUCH'ERY, n.
1. Excess in the pleasures of the table; gluttony; intemperance. But chiefly, habitual lewdness; excessive unlawful indulgence of lust.
2. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from duty or allegiance.
The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -eries) Date: 1642 1. a. extreme indulgence in sensuality b. plural orgies 2. archaic seduction from virtue or duty

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. excessive sensual indulgence.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Debauchery De*bauch"er*y, n.; pl. Debaucheries. 1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. --Burke. 2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. --Sprat.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive. ...scenes of drunkenness and debauchery. [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Excesses, dissipation, dissoluteness. 2. Licentiousness, lewdness. See debauch, n.

Moby Thesaurus

carousal, carouse, debauch, debauchment, dissipation, dissoluteness, fastness, free living, gallantry, high living, killing pace, libertinage, libertinism, license, licentiousness, orgy, profligacy, rakishness, riotous living, saturnalia, unbridledness, venery, wenching, whoring, wildness