saturnalia
Synonyymisanakirja: saturnalia
saturnalia
Saturnalia.
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Riimisanakirja: saturnalia
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Saturnalia
A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.
(RQ:Sinclair Jungle)
- They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.
1922, w:James Frazer|James Frazer, s:The Golden Bough|The Golden Bough, ch 14
- If at the birth of the Latin kings their fathers were really unknown, the fact points either to a general looseness of life in the royal family or to a special relaxation of moral rules on certain occasions, when men and women reverted for a season to the licence of an earlier age. Such Saturnalias are not uncommon at some stages of social evolution.
1922, w:Rafael Sabatini|Rafael Sabatini, s:Captain Blood: His Odyssy|Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XXVIII
- Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.
1961, w:Joseph Heller|Joseph Heller, s:Catch-22 Catch-22, ch 34
- It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.
2001, Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys:
- We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.
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