dissolute
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
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Adjective[edit]
dissolute (comparative more dissolute, superlative most dissolute)
- Unrestrained by morality.
- Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
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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.
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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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