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Word Meanings - RAKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.

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  • RAKISH
    Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
  • DEBAUCHMENT
    The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • DISSOLUTE
    1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
  • FASTENER
    One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
  • DEBAUCHNESS
    Debauchedness.
  • DEBAUCH
    To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
  • LOOSE
    laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
  • PROFLIGATENESS
    The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
  • DEBAUCHEDNESS
    The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.
  • LOOSEN
    Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
  • LOOSESTRIFE
    The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
  • PROFLIGATELY
    In a profligate manner.
  • DISSOLUTENESS
    State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.
  • UNBRIDLE
    To free from the bridle; to set loose.
  • VOLUPTUOUS
    pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. velle 1. Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual. Music arose with
  • PROFLIGATE
    or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or
  • LOOSENESS
    The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
  • DEBAUCHEDLY
    In a profligate manner.
  • FASTENING
    Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
  • TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
    A tetrahexahedron.
  • UNFASTEN
    To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
  • COPPER-FASTENED
    Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
  • UNLOOSEN
    To loosen; to unloose.
  • OUTLOOSE
    A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
  • REFASTEN
    To fasten again.

 

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