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dissolute

adjective A poetic (i.e., non-medical) term meaning free of sexual inhibitions; it is not used in the working medical parlance.

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While some contemporary character collections and plays sketch a miscellany readership of socially elite foppish males, fidgeting dissolutely at the fringes of court life, this is to conflate the world described in verse with the world lived by readers.

'Such a general itching after book-learning': popular readers of 'the most eminent wits'

I do not see how I can much begrudge it them, however (though I would dearly like to see town centres more populated, and town fringes creeping less dissolutely outwards), for Alfriston is indeed a most charming place, neat and pretty as many Sussex towns and villages are, with a beautiful broad green behind the main street, and a handsome church, not small and squat like many in this area, but of generous proportions and with a fine spire.

A MODERN RURAL RIDE: SUSSEX

kabuki Japanese, from earlier kabuki (verb) to act dissolutely

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