dissoluteness
English
Etymology
Noun
dissoluteness (usually uncountable, plural dissolutenesses)
- (obsolete) Lack of restraint; excess.
- Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.17:
- Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.
- 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 76:
- Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.