Definition

licentiousness (sometimes including other vices)

Etymology

from a compound of G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and a presumed (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning continent);

Word family

• Α A

How the KJV renders it

• filthy
• lasciviousness
• wantonness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.