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Orgy

noun

(pl. orgies)

Any act of immoderate indulgence. Synonyms: binge, splurge. "An emotional binge" , "A splurge of spending"

Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity.

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, riot, saturnalia.

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... an angel, and the spell she cast over them did not lose its potency during some hours of dangerous toil. Here, again, was found one of the comparatively trivial incidents which contributed materially to the working out of a strange drama, because anything in the nature of a mutinous orgy breaking out in the first part of that soul-destroying night must have instantly converted the ship into ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... was one of those men of stone, coming, like the statue of the Commandante, to knock at the door of a Don Giovanni, and in the midst of feast and orgy to announce that it is even now the moment to begin to think of Heaven. He had been barn at Ferrara, whither his family, one of the most illustrious of Padua, had been called by Niccolo, Marchese d'Este, and at the age of twenty-three, summoned ...

— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... under the angry ex-perfumer's coarse harangue, the odious gossip behind the scenes which led to her son's marriage. Two reprobate hussies had been the priestesses of this union planned at some orgy amid the degrading familiarities of ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... sufficient force to demolish the tower of the Cathedral. Later in history, Charles IX declared William of Nassau "an outlaw" and his principality "confiscate"; and in 1571, there was a three days' massacre of Protestants. In spite of this horrid orgy the Reformers rose again in might and soon prevented all celebration of Catholic rites. Refugees fleeing from the Dragonnades of Dauphine and of the Cevennes poured into the principality; and when the Princes of Orange were strong enough to protect their state, its Catholics lived restricted ...

— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose

... was still the habit for all ladies to be kissed by the Lord-Lieutenant on being presented to him, and every lady had to be re-presented to every fresh Viceroy. This imposed an absolute orgy of compulsory osculation on the unfortunate Lord-Lieutenant, for if many of the ladies were fresh, young and pretty, the larger proportion of them ...

— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton

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