wantonry
English
Etymology
wanton + -ry
Noun
wantonry (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The state of being wanton.
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., “The Tale of Sir Topaz”, in The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 200:
- Now hold your tongues for charity, / my nobles knights and ladies free, / And listen to my spell, / To battle and to chivalry / And making love in wantonry / For such is what I tell.
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