• Wantonry

    Full definition of wantonry

    Noun

    wantonry

    (uncountable)
    1. (obsolete) The state of being wanton.
      • 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, "" in , Pinguin Classics, page 200:Now hold your tongues for charity,
        my nobles knights and ladies free,
        And listen to my spell,
        To battle and to chivalry
        And making love in wantonry
        For such is what I tell.
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