deordination

English

Etymology

Latin deordinatio (“depraved morality”).

Noun

deordination (plural deordinations)

1. (obsolete) disorder; dissoluteness
   • 1820-1822, Reginald Heber, Life of Jeremy Taylor

     inadvertency, and tyranny, had besmeared her; and being thus cleansed and washed , is accused by the Roman parties of novelty , and condemned , because she refuses to run into the same excess of riot and deordination

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deordination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)