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Licentiously is the adverb of licentious. It tells you how someone behaves, lives, or : in a sexually or way. The adjective paints the person or the life (a licentious king); this word paints the doing (he lived licentiously). It is formal and a little old-fashioned, like its base word. You will see it in novels and moral essays, not in ordinary chat. A dictionary line that defines it as if it were the adjective has mixed the two up: keep -ly for the way, not for the kind of person. It is simply licentious plus -ly, the usual English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
放蕩地;生活不檢點地(副詞;形容「做法」,不是形容「那種人」)
組成licentious + -ly. -ly is the ordinary English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- licentiousthe adjective this adverb is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
licentiouslyadv
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In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。