dissolute
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dissolute (comparative more dissolute, superlative most dissolute)
- Unrestrained by morality.
- Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
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[edit]dissolute
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Noun
[edit]dissolute (plural dissolutes)
- An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
- 1879, The Quarterly Review, volume 148, page 263:
- [H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dissolute
Noun
[edit]dissolute f
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]dissolūte
References
[edit]- “dissolute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dissolute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dissolute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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