Meaning of DEBAUCHERY
| Pronunciation: | | di'bochuree
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| | Definition: | | [n] a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity |
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| | Synonyms: | | bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| | See Also: | | revel, revelry | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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