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- noun Plural form of
dissipation .
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Examples
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I here set forth a group of what might be called the dissipations of the ball-room.
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The contemporary term for the "dissipations" would be an obesogenic environment, as I learned when I traveled about 80 miles due northwest to have a tour of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
Alison Stein Wellner: Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and a Meditation on Moderation 2008
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He's always gallivanting about in foreign countries, seeking God knows what kind of dissipations and leaving his poor mother bound to care for his estates and fortune. "
Hero Come Back Laurens, Stephanie 2005
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The Great Society culture of creature comforts and juvenile dissipations has engendered national decay and social pathologies.
Bruce Fein: At the Edge of Self-Destruction Bruce Fein 2011
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She is a moral authority desperate to save her husband from his dissipations and their child from those destructive influences.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination Michael Gilmour 2012
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She is a moral authority desperate to save her husband from his dissipations and their child from those destructive influences.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination Michael Gilmour 2012
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A good gardener compensates for the dissipations of soil and the vagaries of weather.
Slow Gardening: Stories Outlive Storytellers Blythe 2010
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He died in Jehol less than a year after the British entered Peking, a victim of alcohol and other dissipations.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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He then “abandoned himself” to dissipations readily available in Shanghai, disappearing from headquarters for months at a time into the brothels on the Kiangsi Road the red-light district, contracting venereal disease several times and apparently becoming sterile.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Chief among their responsibilities was securing an elite European education for their young offspring while protecting them from the temptations and dissipations of living abroad.
Founding Fathers Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 2009
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