What's the difference between debauchment and virtue?

Debauchment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is debauched ethos of mateship and factional solidarity linked to fundraising on both sides,” he said.
  • (2) Carbamazepine absorption appeared to be delayed in alcoholics, both after debauche and withdrawal, but its bioavailability did not seem to be reduced.
  • (3) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
  • (4) It’s not as debauched as you’d think: it’s normally eight to 10 women and often three generations come along.
  • (5) The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was "even worse" than shown in the film.
  • (6) The influence of ethanol on the single-dose kinetics of carbamazepine (400 mg syrup) was assessed in 7 alcoholics after a debauche (mean daily consumption 240 g ethanol) and after 9 days of controlled abstinence, and in 8 healthy volunteers after intake of the drug with and without a single dose of ethanol (25 g).
  • (7) A triglyceride tolerance test is the only way to detect those patients in whom a future attack of pancreatitis may be precipitated by a diet rich in fat, or endogenous over production of triglycerides as after an alcoholic debauch.
  • (8) "Not because you want to, of course you don't, but because, in the end, you are a jobbing actor who gets paid to follow the script, no matter how debauched.
  • (9) Assuming platelets to be an adequate model for CNS synaptosomes, concentration and fatty acid composition of anionic phospholipids, phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylositol (PI) in the platelet membrane from alcoholics after a debauche period were examined and compared to controls.
  • (10) It was prompted by the continuous links that are being made between attitudes prevalent during that debauched and de-bunked era and our own wonderful Smiths.
  • (11) The whole thing really seemed like not-terribly-debauched public schoolboys’ idea of debauchery.” The broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer went to Piers Gaveston parties in 1989-91.
  • (12) After yesterday's publication of Sir Thomas Legg's full report – and the decision due today on whether there will be prosecutions – it is now plain that there will be no closure in the grim narrative of the debauching of standards in public life, at least not until the general election gives voters the chance to challenge sitting MPs with dodgy expenses claims.
  • (13) I want my readers to know what’s going wrong with our society and our times,” said Murong Xuecun, an outspoken novelist whose racy books about debauched officials and corruption can no longer published in mainland China.
  • (14) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
  • (15) The debauching of the weather forecast is a metaphor for a loss of shared common sense.
  • (16) I felt the key was to use stretched vowels and to find an equivalent echo between "tout" and "tournaient": "They were reeling round: all reeled round and about them …" Historical details took hours of research: for a debauched night, Emma sports a "lampion" on one ear: not the unlikely "paper lantern" (Wall), nor a "cocked hat" ( Eleanor Marx Aveling , Russell and Davis), but a suitably Gypsy-like "lantern earring" – fashionable at the time.
  • (17) In 9 of the cases the syndrome was cuased by chronic alcoholic debauch and migraine.
  • (18) The authors suggested that a triglyceride tolerance test is the only way to detect those patients in whom future attacks of pancreatitis may be precipitated by a diet rich in fat or an alcoholic debauch.
  • (19) It is debauched ethos of mateship and factional solidarity linked to fundraising on both sides.
  • (20) Haunted bathrooms, the echoing memories of debauched parties, a topiary animal garden that seems to come to life, wasps' nests that feature a never-ending stream of hostile insects.

Virtue


Definition:

  • (n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
  • (n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
  • (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
  • (n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
  • (n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
  • (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
  • (n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
  • (n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (2) Dermatoglyphic alterations in schizophrenic patients are considered in virtue of literature data and the author's own investigations.
  • (3) Since the enzyme requires a metal ion (Co2+) we suggest that the RNA and heparin are inhibitory by virtue of their capacity to chelate the Co2+.
  • (4) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (5) The results indicate that ACTH can alter pain sensitivity and that the effect of corticosteroids on the sensitivity to pain is an indirect one by virtue of their negative feed-back action on the hypothalamic-pituitary system.
  • (6) This test by virtue of its high sensitivity and the facilities in processing a large number of specimens, can prove to be useful in endemic areas for the recognition of asymptomatic malaria and screening of blood donors.
  • (7) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
  • (8) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
  • (9) All lesions but one were located extradurally, and patients with Stage D2 disease, by virtue of bony metastases, were therefore at greatest risk for development of neurologically compressive disease.
  • (10) By virtue of the technique, minimal incision surgery lends itself to a greater risk of causing epidermal inclusion cysts.
  • (11) Tumors of ceruminous gland origin appear to have a distinctive clinical behavior by virtue of their unique anatomical location in the external auditory canal.
  • (12) Proteases substituted with biotin were targeted via the cationic protein avidin A, which by virtue of its charge has affinity for the glomerular basement membrane.
  • (13) The study is based on 220 children from 91 families at high- and low-risk for major depression by virtue of the presence or absence of major depression in their parents.
  • (14) Our findings indicate that DFO has antileukemic properties by virtue of its effects on proliferation and differentiation, and they prompt further experimental and clinical studies with this agent.
  • (15) He will only be able to satisfy all the expectations if he masters, by virtue of his training and experience, the art of setting up a treatment plan with priorities.
  • (16) Although it is less selective than D-[3H]aspartate, DL-[3H]AP5 and [3H]NMDA, L-[3H]glutamate remains, by virtue of its high affinity, the ligand of choice for the study of NMDA receptors in preparations where such sites predominate.
  • (17) We postulated that the contraction by virtue of focal calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and was stimulated this process together with the processes of diffusion into the cytosol, binding to calmodulin and troponin, sequestration by the SR, and subsequent induction of Ca2+ release from the adjacent SR.
  • (18) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
  • (19) Second, by virtue of their effects against rigor and spasticity, NMDA antagonists may reduce increased muscle tone and prevent rhabdomyolysis.
  • (20) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.

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