Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being riotous.
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- noun The state or condition of being
riotous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Before him, our liveliness never passed into vulgar riotousness; if we were all melancholy — this half childlike melancholy, in his presence, led on to quiet, sometimes fairly sensible, conversation, and never ended in dejected boredom.
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Sound Politics is so confidant in their riotousness, that you can't even use "www.preemptivekarma.com" in their coments.
Archive 2005-01-16 2005
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Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And many shall follow their riotousness, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 68: 2 Peter The Challoner Revision
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And many shall follow their riotousness, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision
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For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 68: 2 Peter The Challoner Revision
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You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision
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Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.
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Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision
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