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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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licentious
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synonyms: lascivious, libidinous, prurient, salacious, aselgeia, scortatory, pornerastic ???
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Definition:lacking sexual restraints
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The whalers soon discovered that there weren't that many women of the nikiranroro* class and that the licentious reputation of Tahiti was well deserved, and like apparently every other male who rounded Cape Horn in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whalers too began seeking most of their entertainment in Polynesia.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.116 (2004)
*nikiranroro - Kiribatese word for fallen women who were not quite married and not quite virginal.
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this licentiousness of behaviour in your daughter, has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence,
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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"I can't help thinking of the Hippolytus of Euripides, where the early licentiousness of Theseus is probably responsible for the asceticism of the son that helps bring about the tragedy that ruins them all. [...]"
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.158 (1961)
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Every part of me was open and exposed to the licentious courses of her hands, which, like a lambent fire, ran over my whole body, and thaw'd all coldness as they went.
John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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