Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a loose or relaxed manner; so as to loosen or set free.
- Unrestrainedly.
- In a moral sense, loosely; wantonly; in dissipation or debauchery; without restraint: as, to spend money dissolutely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a dissolute manner.
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- adverb In a
dissolute manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a dissolute way
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Examples
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Among them is Jeff Atmana jaded, dissolutely resolute journalistwhose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story.
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer: Book summary 2010
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Now we have Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, that tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of ex-pats living dissolutely in Paris and the bloody bullfighting in Spain.
Michael Giltz: Theater: ERS Tackles Hemingway; Nelson Tackles 9-11 Michael Giltz 2011
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Now we have Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, that tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of ex-pats living dissolutely in Paris and the bloody bullfighting in Spain.
Michael Giltz: Theater: ERS Tackles Hemingway; Nelson Tackles 9-11 Michael Giltz 2011
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Among them is Jeff Atmana jaded, dissolutely resolute journalistwhose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story.
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Among them is Jeff Atmana jaded, dissolutely resolute journalistwhose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story.
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A wisp of hair waves dissolutely across her forehead between her eyes.
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As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in;” now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
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It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in the ort ‘dissolutely:’ the ort is, according to our meaning, ‘resolutely:’ his meaning is good.
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And I intend to approove by mine, what argument of infallible truth, the same benignity delivereth of it selfe, by enduring patiently the faults of them, that (both in word and worke) should declare unfaigned testimony of such gracious goodnesse, and not to live so dissolutely as they doe.
The Decameron 2004
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For Demades indeed was himself the mere wreck of his country, living and ruling so dissolutely, that Antipater took occasion to say of him, when he was now grown old, that he was like
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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