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wantonry en · NOUN

Etymology

From wanton + -ry.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The state of being wanton.
    • 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. 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of Sir Topaz”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 200: