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But Pertinax was made emperor against the will of the soldiers, who, accustomed to living licentiously under Commodus, could not tolerate the honest way of life to which Pertinax wished to return them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

This class of people Moses calls "giants," men who arrogate to themselves power both political and ecclesiastical, and who sin most licentiously.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas

No, it would be ambiguous, as though I had used it licentiously for 'daringly,' and that would cloak the sense.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Must I, being the Interpreter, and Protector of the Laws, only make a Parade of my Prerogative, by licentiously violating them?

From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de

All these terms—'principle,' 'doctrine,' 'system,' 'theory,' 'hypothesis'—are used nearly always most licentiously, and as arbitrarily as a Newmarket jockey selects the colors for his riding-dress.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas