ἀσέλγεια
asélgeia
“licentiousness (sometimes including other vices)”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
licentiousness (sometimes including other vices)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
intemperance; licentiousness, lasciviousness, Rom. 13:13; insolence, outrageous behavior, Mk. 7:22
Translated in KJV as
filthylasciviousnesswantonness
Etymology
from a compound of G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and a presumed (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning continent);
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