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adjective

Profligate adj.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. (Obs.) "The foe is profligate, and run."

Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. "A race more profligate than we." "Made prostitute and profligate muse."

Synonyms: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned.

noun

Profligate n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony."

verb

Profligate v. t. To drive away; to overcome. Note: (A Latinism) (Obs.)

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... that gallant quadrilateral of musketeers will forget the part which is played by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in that magnificent prose epic? There is little to be said for the real Villiers; he was a profligate and a scoundrel, and he did not show very heroically in his quarrel with the fiery young Ossory. It was one thing to practically murder Lord Shrewsbury; it was quite another thing to risk the wrath and the determined right hand of the Duke of Ormond's son. But the Villiers ...

— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

... therefore, we are bound to trace back the responsibility for the present crisis even to the Reformation itself, as well as to the tyranny and absolutism of government, and the sordid and profligate ordering of society, which followed on ...

— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram

... notice as he had been wont to take of the coloured servants who tended him when he was with his regiment in India. Horatio Paget had been a night-brawler and a gamester, a duellist and a reprobate, in the glorious days that were gone; but he had never been a profligate; and he did not know that the girl who brought him his breakfast and staggered under the weight of his coal-scuttle was one of the most beautiful women ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... diligently to the best of my ability, I found every moment I could spare from refreshment and sleep hardly sufficient for the claims which the Comfortless, whom I had to console, the Sick, whom I had to succour, the Profligate, to reclaim, the Sceptic, to convince, made upon my time. Wholesome and profitable to my spirit, I trust, was this discipline! It seems to me a thing inexplicable, how a man can advocate the interests, the benefits of religion—can ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various

... law of reaction is stringent and strong, A youth in extremis is sure to go wrong, For the pendulum swings with a multiplied force When sloped from its even legitimate course. I have known—who has not?—that a profligate son Has been through his fanatic father undone; Restrained till the night of free licence arrives, And then he breaks out to the wreck of ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

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