Both Uses of
profligate
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- So that it had been as Hodge had expected it would be—had even, strange to say, hoped it would be: the image had been reinforced for them both, the magnificent ghost of a lost time and place revitalized, made to seem fit for a world it could never survive in except by a calculated destruction of body for soul: a world well lost for poetry, for the beauty of sleek or angular machines, big motors roaring for as long as they lasted, profligate generosity, family talk†
Chpt 3
- He worked hard and earned money and kept hold of it—he was the farthest thing from a profligate.†
Chpt 10 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(profligate) to spend money recklessly or wastefully; or a person who does so regularly
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, profligate can refer to behavior considered immoral or to someone who behaves in such a way.