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Licentious

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Bible Concordance

2 Peter 2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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Thesaurus

Licentious (1 Occurrence)
... moral discipline or restraint, especially in sexual conduct; passing due bounds;
excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. ...
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Tammuz (1 Occurrence)
... repair to this temple in midsummer to celebrate the death of Adonis or Tammuz, and
there arose in connection with this celebration those licentious rites which ...
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Eli (36 Occurrences)
... His sons Hophni and Phinehas grossly misconducted themselves, to the great disgust
of the people (1 Samuel 2:27-36). They were licentious reprobates. ...
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License (3 Occurrences)

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Licentiousness (10 Occurrences)

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Unbridled (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled
passions. Multi-Version Concordance Unbridled (4 Occurrences). ...
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Offscouring (2 Occurrences)
... of the earth. They are humbled to earth, crushed into the dust, carried
away to be the slaves of licentious idolaters. The haughty ...
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Jesting (2 Occurrences)
... This is the case here, where it clearly has a flavor of the coarse or licentious.
Multi-Version Concordance Jesting (2 Occurrences). ...
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Libertine
... 5. (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled. 6. (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate;
loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. ...
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Lust (42 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as,
the lust of gain. 4. (n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Lacking moral discipline or restraint, especially in sexual conduct; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.

2. (a.) Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.

Greek

1657. eleutheria -- liberty, freedom
... liberty. From eleutheros; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or
ceremonial) -- liberty. see GREEK eleutheros. (eleutheria) -- 4 Occurrences. ...
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113. athesmos -- lawless
... Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: athesmos Phonetic Spelling:
(ath'-es-mos) Short Definition: lawless Definition: lawless, unrestrained, licentious. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6589. pasaq -- to part, open wide
... open wide. A primitive root; to dispart (the feet or lips), ie Become licentious --
open (wide). 6588, 6589. pasaq. 6590 . Strong's Numbers.
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6945. qadesh -- a temple prostitute
... sodomite, unclean. From qadash; a (quasi) sacred person, ie (technically) a (male)
devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry -- sodomite, unclean. ...
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Library

Of Jupiter, and his Licentious Life.
... The Epitome of the Divine Institutes. Addressed to His Brother Pentadius.
Chap. X."Of Jupiter, and His Licentious Life. But respecting ...
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That the Romans Should have Understood that Gods who Desired to be ...
... Chapter 13."That the Romans Should Have Understood that Gods Who Desired to Be
Worshipped in Licentious Entertainments Were Unworthy of Divine Honor. ...
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Prohibition of Sacrifices, of Mystic Rites, Combats of Gladiators ...
... Book IV. Chapter XXV."Prohibition of Sacrifices, of Mystic Rites, Combats
of Gladiators, also the Licentious Worship of the Nile. ...
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Overthrow of an Idol Temple, and Abolition of Licentious Practices ...
... Book III. Chapter LV."Overthrow of an Idol Temple, and Abolition of
Licentious Practices, at Aphaca in Phoenicia. The emperor's ...
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Several Other Things Turned against the Same Mathematicians.
... And if licentiousness be in its nature evil, and out of licentiousness come adulteries,
thefts, quarrels, and murders, then a licentious life is in its nature ...
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Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional.
... We are prepared to make the utmost allowance for careless, even for licentious
transcription; and we can invent excuses for the mistaken zeal, the ...
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On Filthy Speaking.
... "For what proceedeth out of the mouth," He says, "defileth a man," [1421] "shows
him to be unclean, and heathenish, and untrained, and licentious, and not ...
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With whom we are to Associate.
... in the streets of the city, and wander not in its lonely places." [1618] For that
is, in truth, a lonely place, though there be a crowd of the licentious in it ...
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Chrysostom and Eudoxia. His Second Banishment, AD 403
... church of St. Sophia, and dedicated amid boisterous and licentious revelry,
which disturbed the sacred services. Chrysostom ascended ...
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Self-Denial and Cross-Bearing.
... who wipes out by a striking revolution his own former life which had been spent
in wickedness; as by way of illustration he who was once licentious denies his ...
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Subtopics

Licentious

Related Terms

Tammuz (1 Occurrence)

Eli (36 Occurrences)

License (3 Occurrences)

Licentiousness (10 Occurrences)

Unbridled (4 Occurrences)

Offscouring (2 Occurrences)

Jesting (2 Occurrences)

Libertine

Lust (42 Occurrences)