profligate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

   • [H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
   • Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate, United were far more ruthless.
2. 2

   Immoral

   Immoral; abandoned to vice.

   • Made prostitute and profligate the muse.
   • Time ſenſibly all things impairs; / Our fathers have been worſe than theirs; / And we than ours; next age will ſee / A race more profligate than we / (With all the pains we take) have ſkill enough to be.
3. 3

   Profligated

   Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.

   • The Canon laws […] with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.
   • By whiche onely policie, the kynges armie was profligate and dispersed.
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   1. 4

      Overthrown, ruined.

      • The foe is profligate, and run.
   2. 5

      An abandoned person

      An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

      • Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?
   3. 6

      An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

      • He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
   4. 7

      To drive away

      To drive away; to overcome.

      • Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;

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