wantonness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WANTONNESS, noun 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 13:13. 2 Peter 2:18
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