unruliness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNRU'LINESS, noun [from unruly.] 1. Disregard of restraint; licentiousness; turbulence; as the unruliness of men, or of their passions. 2. The disposition of a beast to break over fences and wander from an inclosure; the practice of breaking or leaping over fences.
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