debauchery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
    bacchanalia; saturnalia; bacchanal; riot; debauch; drunken revelry; orgy.

WordNet

De*bauch"er*y noun
Wordforms
plural Debaucheries
Definitions
  1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
    The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke.
  2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
    Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat.

Webster 1913