Profligacy
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- Careless wastefulness.
- shameless and immoral behaviour
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- He had, indeed, reduced several women to a state of utter profligacy, had broke the hearts of some, and had the honour of occasioning the violent death of one poor girl, who had either drowned herself, or, what was rather more probable, had been drowned by him.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Etymology
From Latin prōflīgātus (“wretched, abandoned”), participle of prōflīgō (“strike down, cast down”), from pro (“forward”) + fligere (“to strike, dash”).
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