wantonness

WANTONNESS, n.

1. Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery.

--As sad as night, only for wantonness.

2. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint.

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.

3. Lasciviousness; lewdness. Romans 8. II Peter 2.