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Licentious vs Rakehell - What's the difference?

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Licentious is a related term of rakehell.


As adjectives the difference between licentious and rakehell

is that licentious is lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct while rakehell is .

As a noun rakehell is

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licentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct.
  • Disregarding accepted rules.

    • Derived terms

    * licentiousness

    See also

    * incontinent

    rakehell

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rake-hell

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].

    • Synonyms

    * rakehelly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * Barrow
    • It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.