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    dissipation


    1. It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion


    2. In commercial countries, therefore, riches, in spite of the most violent regulations of law to prevent their dissipation, very seldom remain long in the same family


    3. Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other


    4. But it is surely much easier to change the direction of industry from one sort of labour to another, than to turn idleness and dissipation to any


    5. By travelling so very young, by spending in the most frivolous dissipation the most previous years of his life, at a distance from the inspection and controul of his parents and relations, every useful habit, which the earlier parts of his education might have had some tendency to form in him, instead of being riveted and confirmed, is almost


    6. A man of a large revenue, whatever may be his profession, thinks he ought to live like other men of large revenues; and to spend a great part of his time in festivity, in vanity, and in dissipation


    7. The Princes (par nobile fratrum!) had serious thoughts, when in London, of bringing an action for slander against Governor Griffith and Sir Francis Scott, for stating that Prempeh indulged in the mild dissipation of occasional head-chopping; and thereby casting a reflection on the character and the integrity of the Ashanti Embassy then in London


    8. dissipation and weakness of mind and body


    9. higher will be the heat dissipation at the regulator


    10. The power shown a 6-way Dip switch, but you should preferably dissipation at iC1 = 10×1

    11. void – after the dissipation of the causal bodies These processes, which take


    12. Her perplexity did not last very long, for quite soon Aureliano Segundo began to show signs of laziness and dissipation


    13. The discovery of his daughter restored his former joviality and the pleasure of being with her was slowly leading him away from dissipation


    14. The problem was that his frigate could fire no more than two laser beams at a time, beams of limited durations due to heat dissipation constraints and of a maximum power of forty megawatts per beam


    15. He vanished in a dissipation of light that was more show than necessary


    16. The energy continued to dissipate as the spheroid field continued to expand, but that dissipation was not sufficiently quick enough to spare the shuttle containing Lt


    17. It’s as if finding stillness within each individual has allowed for the dissipation of many of the interference patterns that, up to now, dominated our collective consciousness


    18. c) A third part is being dissipated by the dissipation forces of the internal friction 22


    19. Nevertheless, if we have means available to measure this speed we can successfully determine the energy absorbed by the internal forces of the dissipation friction


    20. What with the lands that came under their reign having become unyielding, and lacking the old jihadi zeal to embark upon plundering the European kingdoms, in time, the Islamic world sunk into economic decay and dissipation

    21. And their collective sense of despair could have led to the feeling of dissipation that inexorably put them onto the path of laziness and prejudice


    22. However, after a relatively long lull on the communal front, a bunch of fanatical, thus stupid, Indian Musalman zealots targeted some Ram Sevaks, returning from a rally at Ayodhya, for the cause of the Ram temple, which lost its momentum by then that was before its eventual dissipation


    23. I would that I knew how humanity can relish a living depending on wrong, dissipation, struggle and slavery!!


    24. In a few words, the beliefs and the deeds of humanity in this age have exceeded the normal limits, and the corruption and the dissipation have reached its top at most nations, while the others are speedily following the steps of those who antedated them in corruption


    25. But make no mistake: Thought will create nothing unless it is consciously, systematically, and constructively directed; and herein is the difference between idle thinking, which is simply a dissipation of effort and constructive thinking, which means practically unlimited achievement


    26. wonder at this dissipation, depravity, call it what you like, but it is understandable if you realize the misery of their lives: the unruly children, the callous husbands spending most of their time at the coffee house, the struggle to make ends meet, the unlikelihood of an improvement in their lives, their non-existent self respect


    27. The transformation of Hitler’s mental and physical health can be seen by how healthy and strong he was before his appointment as chancellor of Germany and how all the later films showed his face etched in dissipation and ill health due to the sudden lack of all healthy activity


    28. This idea has evidently arisen from the inability of the average person to associate an unconventional mode of life with anything but riotous dissipation


    29. His sores may have been the result of dissipation and vice, as is often the case


    30. If you maintain the total dissipation of the 'soul, as well as the body, you escape the 'absurdity of supposing that death has converted one person into two, so that whereas in life there was one David, in death there are two Davids’ (Constable’s Hades, p

    31. Those who hold the intermediate unconsciousness of the soul, even those who hold the dissipation of the soul in the first death, maintain truth which more than compensates for all their (possible) errors on this subject


    32. Some of his coadjutors even cite the speeches of the excellent but mistaken persons introduced in the drama of job's sufferings, as if they were authoritative declarations on the dissipation of the soul, requiring our assent; whereas it must first be proved, against Hengstenberg and Ewald, that these books are something beyond the devout speculations of poets and philosophers perhaps of the time of the Captivity, incorporated with the sacred writings as valuable records of tentative holy thought in the ages of preparation for the gospel; and next, that in these passages the writers are speaking in a more than popular tone


    33. There is, however, another attempt to reconcile this expression of our Lord with the idea of the dissipation of the soul


    34. The answer to this criticism is briefly as follows: (1) It supposes, but does not prove, the dissipation of the soul


    35. (3) It is inconceivable 'that Christ would, under such solemn circumstances, have used words of comfort to the dying sinner, which can be prevented from conveying the idea of immediate entrance into some blessed state only by an argument on the dissipation of the soul, which was quite beyond the capacity of the thief, or of any except cultivated men—an argument partaking more of the nature of an intellectual riddle than of the serious significance fitted for the lips of a dying Savior, whose own Spirit was certainly not about to sink into nothingness


    36. He may even spend in dissipation, and intemperance, the very


    37. I say awakened, because time and London, business and dissipation, had in some measure quieted it, and I had been growing a fine hardened villain, fancying myself indifferent to her, and choosing to fancy that she too must have become indifferent to me; talking to myself of our past attachment as a mere idle, trifling business, shrugging up my shoulders in proof of its being so, and silencing every reproach, overcoming every scruple, by secretly saying now and then, 'I shall be heartily glad to hear she is well married


    38. Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper


    39. He neither wept nor prayed: he cursed and defied; execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation


    40. above all, to say the plain truth, the dissipation and diversion I began to

    41. Some of the females had tried to conceal the ravages of vice and dissipation by coating their faces with powder and paint


    42. How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation


    43. Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan usage


    44. made when, tossed about by doubts and difficulties in London, like a cork on the waves, he plunged into eight-and-forty hours' dissipation with a stranger


    45. Most of those who saw Fred riding out of Middlemarch in company with Bambridge and Horrock, on his way of course to Houndsley horse-fair, thought that young Vincy was pleasure-seeking as usual; and but for an unwonted consciousness of grave matters on hand, he himself would have had a sense of dissipation, and of doing what might be expected of a gay young fellow


    46. It would be a graceful, easy way of piecing on the new habits to the old, to have a few playful words with Rosamond about his resistance to dissipation, and his firm resolve to take long fasts even from sweet sounds


    47. It was generally known in Middlemarch that a good deal of money was lost and won in this way; and the consequent repute of the Green Dragon as a place of dissipation naturally heightened in some quarters the temptation to go there


    48. He listened eagerly to what Lydgate had to say in dissipation of his fears, though this too was only repetition; and this moment in which Bulstrode was receiving a medical opinion with a sense of comfort, seemed to make the communication of a personal need to him easier than it had been in Lydgate's contemplation beforehand


    49. Dolokhov, who had reappeared that year in Moscow after his exile and his Persian adventures, and was leading a life of luxury, gambling, and dissipation, associated with his old Petersburg comrade Kuragin and made use of him for his own ends


    50. He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation




















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    Synonyms for "dissipation"

    dissipation waste wastefulness dissolution licentiousness looseness profligacy intemperance indulgence evil dispersal diffusion dissemination distribution scattering disintegration

    "dissipation" definitions

    breaking up and scattering by dispersion


    dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure


    useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly