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Profligacy Arrowsmith, Martin simultaneously engaged to Madeline and Leona. [Am. Lit.: Arrowsmith] wealthy profligate; keeps Tom as gigolo. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones] pleasure-loving prodigal; lacks discipline. [Br. Lit.: Amelia] (1725–1798) myriad amours made his name synonymous with philanderer. [Ital. Hist.: Benét, 172]
internationally active profligate and seducer. [Span. Lit.: Benét, 279; Ger. Opera: Mozart, Don Giovanni, Wester-man, 93–95] British soldier wenches his way around world. [Br. Lit.: Flashman] Emperor’s dashing and talented bastard woos many. [Jap. Lit.: The Tale of Genii] scorns and craftily tests feminine virtue. [Br. Lit.: Cymbeline] manly but all too human young man; has numerous amorous adventures. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones] lusty and violent in most of his actions. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov] young rake and seducer. [Br. Lit.: The Fair Penitent] from bully to dissipative rake and cruel husband. [Br. Lit.: Barry Lyndon] gambler and robber; has scores of illegitimate offspring. [Br. Opera: The Beggar’s Opera] Hogarth prints illustrating the headlong career and sorry end of a libertine. [Br. Art: EB (1963) XI, 625] loses his wife, lover, and esteem by philandering. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta] sales representative known for lavish living, gambling, amorality. [Br. Lit.: The Old Wives’ Tale, Magill I, 684–686] magic land of illicit pleasure where Venus keeps court. [Ger. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 932] supreme of Greek gods; extramarital affairs were count-less. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 292] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. -- for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old, she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom stubborn, scarcely ever quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house. But at the same time just this aim demands the greatest efforts of us; and so, led astray by pride, losing sight of this aim, we occupy ourselves either with the mystery which in our impurity we are unworthy to receive, or seek the reformation of the human race while ourselves setting an example of baseness and profligacy. |
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