profligations

Noun

profligation (countable and uncountable, plural profligations)

1. (obsolete) defeat; rout; overthrow
   • the braying of Silenus his Ass, conduced much to the profligation of the Giants1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
2. Licentiousness; lewd behavior.
   • 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...1807, Thomas Morton, The School of Reform, page 64
3. The quality of being profligate; extravagance; overabundance.
   • This profligation of grant programs has tended to confuse objectives, recipients, and administrators.1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor, Impact of Federal Policies on Employment, Poverty, and Other...