WANTONNESS, n.
1. Sportiveness gaiety frolicsomeness waggery.
--As sad as night, only for wantonness.
2. Licentiousness negligence of restraint.
The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.
3. Lasciviousness lewdness. Romans 8 . 2 Peter 2 .
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