Saturnalias

Word SATURNALIAS
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Definitions and meanings of "Saturnalias"

What do we mean by saturnalias?

A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.

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The word "saturnalias" in example sentences

The undercurrent of these saturnalias is a melancholy deprivation of freedom and possibilities in tiny worlds such as "Pammydiddle" that cheat women out of their potential. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Taillefer, our amphitryon, has undertaken to surpass the circumscribed saturnalias of the petty modern Lucullus. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In that house secret saturnalias of literature and art, politics and finance were carried on; there, desire reigned a sovereign; there, caprice and fancy were as sacred as honor and virtue to a bourgeoise; thither came Blondet, Finot, Etienne Lousteau, Vernou the feuilletonist, ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then she fell to thinking of all the strange scenes in the life history of the world on which the moon had looked -- stricken fields, barbaric rites, unrecorded crimes, sacked and burning cities, the blackened remains of martyrs at the stake, enslaved nations sleeping fitfully after the day's travail, wrecks on uncharted seas, forgotten superstitions, pagan saturnalias -- all the thousand and one phases of life as it has been and is lived. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I need not describe to you some of our social saturnalias. ❋ Unknown (1847)

Parisian saturnalias were the result of them, etc., etc. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Reflect upon that sentence, and ask yourselves if the worst tyrants in their saturnalias ever gave more horribly burlesque reasons for their cruelties. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

a howling wilderness by reason of damp and rats; but there were those of his Bohemian friends who could have told of jovial parties assembled there in November, and saturnalias celebrated there in January; for Mr. Wooster was a bachelor of very liberal opinions, and had two sets of visitors. ❋ Unknown (1875)

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