Licentiousness

Thus the term licentiousness, which means in a strict sense the wish to do whatever you want, moral or immoral, whether good or bad for you. ❋ Athanasius (2007)

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Licentiousness would involve rape because one of the definitions of licentiousness is lacking sexual restraint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shepard posits a jungle paradise where sexual licentiousness is imposed by the environment, leaving humans helpless to do anything but engage wholeheartedly in the perverse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An eloquent statesman, now gone to his rest, had come into public life at a period when the mad fervour of the French revolution had inclined men to think that liberty, as they termed licentiousness and anarchy, was the greatest blessing bestowed by God upon man, had himself strongly imbibed that feeling and did much to impress it especially upon Kentucky and Maryland. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Her innocent mirth was called licentiousness, and the royal splendour which she had been taught to maintain, was looked upon as iniquitous extravagance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"I think myself, sir," said the pastor, deliberately, "that many children are born thus, but how does this evil affect the other form of licentiousness, which is so on the increase?" ❋ Harriet A. Adams (N/A)

We believe that the number of cases in which boys have undesirable relationships with one another is not very large, but we believe also that there is a very great deal of that purely personal self-indulgence, that purely self-regarding licentiousness, which is the cause of so much unhappiness in boyhood. ❋ Victor Gollancz (1930)

The licentiousness is a “grand peut-etre,” according to the turn of the times being. ❋ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 (1854)

"licentiousness" -- some other term here applies: make it what you wish. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

Unlike many liberals, he readily admits that a faction of the Democratic Party during the 1960s twisted the American tradition of individualism into "licentiousness" and rejected the party's older values of family, community and faith. ❋ Unknown (2007)

LAMB: You used a word earlier, "licentiousness," when it came to Ben Franklin. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He also describes the Areois (I., 185-89) as "privileged libertines," who travelled from place to place giving improper dances and exhibitions, "addicted to every kind of licentiousness," and ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

He issued an order declaring that the army was in a state of "licentiousness," and forbidding soldiers to act without the civil authority. ❋ William Hunt (1886)