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What does wantonness mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
  2. (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
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This worthy cavalier discountenanced all idleness, rioting, chambering, and wantonness among his soldiery.
All the money earned by prisoners was at their own disposal, and was spent almost habitually in drink, chambering, and wantonness.
It was the very wantonness of woe that swept over my heart, whelming it with terrible desolation!
Poets and composers tackle it with sadness and fury, wantonness and sarcasm.
Occasionally it has seemed to be sheer wantonness and wickedness that has made them act unrighteously.
Quarrels and family feuds had broken out, freedom had turned into wantonness.

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