Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAN'TON-NESS, n.

1. Sportiveness; gayety; frolicksomeness; waggery. As sad as night, / Only for wantonness. – Shak.
2. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. – K. Charles.
3. Lasciviousness; lewdness. Rom. xiii. 2 Pet. ii.