Wantonness
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Wantonness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
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. Rom 8. II Peter 2.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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