S vs Wantonness - What's the difference?
s | wantonness |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
*1897 , , Dracula , ch. 16,
*:The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness .
(countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
*1882 , , History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty , Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366,
*:These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.
