How to pronounce“profligate”in English
including the United States with its famous prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment in the eighth amendment to the constitution. Also abolished during this period was the
profligate application of the death penalty for nonlethal crimes. 18th century England had 222 capital offenses on the books including poaching, counterfeiting, robbing a rabbit
warren, being in the company of gypsies and strong evidence of malice in a child 7 to 14 years of age. The death penalty was not just on the -- in the law books, but
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Definitions of “profligate”
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!”
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
“Made prostitute and profligate the muse.”
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
“Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?”
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.”