Definition of "wantonnesses" [wantonnesses]

• Plural form of wantonness. (noun)

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• "Her charms consisted in little wantonnesses, which she knew admirably well to use in hours of dalliance, and which, I believe, are of all things the most delightful to a lover."
• "This faithlessness operates among us according to our tempers, producing either sadness or levity, and being the ultimate root alike of our discontents and of our wantonnesses."
• "In the midst of all the frolic and wantonnesses, which this joyous band had presently, and all naturally, run into, an elegant supper was served in and we sat down to it, my spark-elect placing himself next to me, and the other couples without order or ceremony."