riotousness

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Alcuin told the first holy Roman emperor to ignore such declarations of public godliness “since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

For the moment the place is quiet, but the riotousness of the people is liable to break out at any moment, and, unless the greatest caution is used, we may be discovered and challenged.

From Under the Rebel's Reign by Neufeld, Charles

Dryden never learned moderation in his humour; there is a student’s clumsiness and extravagance in his indecency; the plays of Etheredge, a man of the world, have not the uncouth riotousness of Dryden’s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

It was sure to him that he must set his influence against this unorganized day of waste and riotousness.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

There was an awful insolence, a ribald riotousness in some of the oaths which redeemed them from the scorn which every well-balanced mind should feel for displays of petulance.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus