All 5 Uses of
debauchery
in
War and Peace
- It suits you so badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!†
Chpt 1 *debauchery = excessive indulgence in things like alcohol, drugs, or sex
- In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving everything from society and giving nothing in return.†
Chpt 5
- I shall perish of my debauchery if Thou utterly desertest me!†
Chpt 6
- They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a maid to marry her...to deceive, to kidnap....Don't you understand that it is as mean as beating an old man or a child?†
Chpt 8
- The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(debauchery) excessive indulgence -- such as excessive drinking, casual sex, and/or drug abuse while partying -- possibly for an evening, but often implying a wasteful, decadent life
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In the form, debauch or archaically in the form debauchery the word more commonly means "to corrupt or seduce from virtue, duty, or allegiance" as when Edmund Burke wrote "Learning not debauched by ambition," and "The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army."