the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The character or condition of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; abandoned conduct; shameless dissipation.
n.Synonyms Shamelessness. See abandoned.
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n. the trait of spending extravagantly
n. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
Word Usage
"T.is warmth was stopped by Augustus Hervey, who spoke to order, and called for the question; but young T. T.wnshend confirmed, that the term profligacy was applied by all mankind to the conduct on the warrants."