profligation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. defeat; rout; overthrow countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — the braying of Silenus his Ass, conduced much to the profligation of the Giants
  2. Licentiousness; lewd behavior. countable,uncountable
    — I've seen your player show folks, and such like wiggeling and waggeling, and chattering about London pride, and London profligation, and what not – Now I think, if one of them was just to set about talking a little of London kindheartedness and London charity, it would be rather more truerer, and quite as becoming.
  3. The quality of being profligate; extravagance; overabundance. countable,uncountable
    — This profligation of grant programs has tended to confuse objectives, recipients, and administrators.

词形变化

profligations plural

词源

Etymology tree
Late Latin prōflīgātiōbor.
English profligation
Borrowed from Late Latin prōflīgātiō, from prō- (“forward”, (whence pro-)) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō. By surface analysis, profligate + -ion.
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