riotousness

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Alcuin told the first holy Roman emperor to ignore such declarations of public godliness “since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

Dryden never learned moderation in his humour; there is a student’s clumsiness and extravagance in his indecency; the plays of Etheredge, a man of the world, have not the uncouth riotousness of Dryden’s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

There was an awful insolence, a ribald riotousness in some of the oaths which redeemed them from the scorn which every well-balanced mind should feel for displays of petulance.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

There ensued forthwith as terrible a battle as one would wish to see if battles were gaged by volume of noise and riotousness of action.

From Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Before him, our liveliness never passed into vulgar riotousness; if we were all melancholy—this half childlike melancholy, in his presence, led on to quiet, sometimes fairly sensible, conversation, and never ended in dejected boredom.

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance