dissoluteness

Noun

(uncountable)

Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.

Origin

From dissolute +"Ž -ness.

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A sermon which he preached before the Synod at St Andrews against the dissoluteness of the clergy gave great offence to the provost, who cast him into prison, and might have carried his resentment to the extremest limit had not Alesius contrived to escape to Germany in 1532.

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