wantonness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.

   “The ſpirit of vvantonness is, ſure, ſcared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-ſimple, vvith fine and recovery, he vvill never, I think, in the vvay of vvaſte, attempt us again.”

   “A vvantonneſſe in vvealth, methinks I agree not vvith, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jevvells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains vvhimſied with his vvealth: […]”

   “A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: […]”

   “The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]”

   “The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.”

2. (countable, dated, usually)A particular wanton act.

   “These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.”