dissoluteness

• [303] The research will bring to light no single expression savouring of (p. 322) impiety, dissoluteness, carelessness, or even levity. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. I by J. Endell Tyler
• The opportunities for vice and dissoluteness are really less than at home. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• The secret of the apparent inconsistency may be found in the fact that the courtiers were not slow in perceiving, on the one hand, the almost incalculable gains which the confiscation of the goods of condemned heretics might be made to yield, and, on the other, the facility with which a monarch of a disposition naturally gentle and humane[557] could be persuaded to countenance the most barbarous cruelties, as the supposed means of atoning for the dissoluteness of his own life. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• This tendency to promote dissoluteness is the most serious charge which Plato brings against the arts. —  The Moral Economy
• Greatly, and above all else, had Jules despised their dissoluteness: how could they be other than the poor devils they were, with those debasing habits which they cherished? —  Browning's Heroines

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