licentiousness [
lai'senʃəsnis]
n. 放荡;放肆
- But some of his best chapters are devoted to the efforts to curb the general licentiousness.
不过,该书最精彩部分主要写人们在根除普遍存在的放肆行为的努力。 - And many will follow their licentiousness, because of whom the way of the truth will be reviled.
2也有许多人将要随从他们的邪荡,叫真理的路因他们的缘故被毁谤; - Rom. 13:13 Let us walk becomingly as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in fornication and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.
罗十三13行事为人要端正得体,好像在白昼;不可荒宴醉酒,不可纵欲淫荡,不可争竞嫉妒;
licentiousness[ noun ]- the quality of being lewd and lascivious
<noun.attribute>
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
<noun.act>
Licentious \Li*cen"tious\ (-sh[u^]s), a. [L. licentiosus: cf. F.
licencieux. See {License}.]
1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive;
abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious
press.
A wit that no licentious pertness knows. --Savage.
2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral;
dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a
licentious life. ``Licentious wickedness.'' --Shak.
Syn: Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous;
ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose;
sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral.
※ -- {Li*cen"tious*ly}, adv. --
{Li*cen"tious*ness}, n.