Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WANTONNESS
WANTONNESS
Definitions of WANTONNESS
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
- (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using WANTONNESS in a Sentence
- He describes her as a woman of reckless extravagance and wantonness, whom Caligula nonetheless loved passionately and faithfully.
- Tender remembers the warnings from Good-resolution, and he runs away, going on further he is stopped by an old man, Carnal-Security, who also convinces him to turn from the road, and he leads to a grand palace tended by the old man's wife Intemperance and his daughters Wantonness and Forgetfulness, where he is enticed to drink wine, dabbles with Wantonness and fall asleep in Forgetfulness' arms.
- A few lonely redwoods, spared out of wantonness, had done their best to plant the spaces, but the younglings near them could only patch the ground; the pines and firs had well-nigh given up the struggle.
- Methodist commentator Joseph Benson describes this saying as "the words of scoffers, who turned the grace of God into wantonness, and took encouragement from his patience and long-suffering, to despise his threatenings, as if they would never be fulfilled".
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