licentious

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Alternate follies take the sway, Licentious passions burn; Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That man was made to mourn.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

Till now you haue gone on, and fill'd the time With all Licentious measure, making your willes The scope of Iustice.

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William

Licentious blockades, irregularly enlisted or impressed seamen, and the property of honest commerce seized with violence, and even plundered under legal pretenses, are disorders never separable from the conflicts of war upon the ocean.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

Licentious in morals,—often in prison, or at court, or in the army, or a fugitive, he has left in his numerous little poems many a curious record of his variegated existence.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

Chamberlains, this message take Licentious Xerxes from his virtuous queen: I do not fear his wrath.

From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton