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licencious

licencious is the obsolete form of licentious.

Meaning of licentious

Adjective

licentious (comparative more licentious, superlative most licentious)

  1. Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
    • His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 228
  2. Disregarding accepted rules.

Forms of licencious

comparativemore licencious
superlativemost licencious

Questions about licencious

What is licencious the obsolete form of?
Licencious is the obsolete form of licentious.

Words near licencious in the dictionary

  1. licences
  2. licences to crenellate
  3. licences to print money
  4. licencing
  5. licencings
  6. licencious
  7. licensability
  8. licensable
  9. license
  10. license fee
  11. license fees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: licencious (page history and authors); licentious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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