What does debauchery mean?

Definitions for debauchery
dɪˈbɔ tʃə ride·bauch·e·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelrynoun

    a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Wiktionary

  1. debaucherynoun

    Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.

  2. debaucherynoun

    Seduction from duty.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Debaucherynoun

    The practice of excess; intemperance; lewdness.

    Etymology: from debauch.

    Oppose vices by their contrary virtues, hypocrisy by sober piety, and debauchery by temperance. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.

    These magistrates, instead of lessening enormities, occasion just twice as much debauchery as there would be without them. Jonathan Swift, Project for the Advancement of Religion.

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  1. debauchery

    Debauchery is indulgence in sensual pleasures or behaviors that are considered morally corrupt, excessive, or harmful. It typically involves excessive drinking, gambling, indulgence in sexual activities, or drug use.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Debaucherynoun

    corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance

  2. Debaucherynoun

    excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness

Wikidata

  1. Debauchery

    Debauchery is an industrial death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany.

Editors Contribution

  1. debauchery

    When a person hurls insults and makes an ass of themselves that causes a media sensation.


    Submitted by anonymous on June 23, 2019  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of debauchery in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of debauchery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of debauchery in a Sentence

  1. Pat Boone:

    Christianity imposes restriction on behavior, even in movies, hollywood doesn’t like it when people tell them to stick to moral rules because it makes a lot of money breaking those rules. Orgies, vampires, zombies, debauchery of all forms. Anything goes, and it is liberal Democrats who are making these films. Depravity is profitable.

  2. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

    The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  3. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason:

    What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

  4. Pat Boone:

    Hollywood doesn’t like it when people tell them to stick to moral rules because it makes a lot of money breaking those rules. Orgies, vampires, zombies, debauchery of all forms. Anything goes, and it is liberal Democrats who are making these films. Depravity is profitable.

  5. Marquis de Sade:

    Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

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