Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. (said by George Washington) The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. (said by Harriet Ann Jacobs)

licentiousness pretentiousness sententiousness tendenciousness tendentiousness

Lacking moral discipline or legal restraint, especially in sexual conduct

We try to avoid frivolity, drunkenness, licentiousness, and non-Torah customs.

Dom Afonso was concerned with the corruption of the leaders that Portugal sent over to the Congo. He was concerned by their licentiousness and their inability to rule. Due to the incompetence of the Vassals sent over, the people of the Congo were starving. Not only were they starving but the soon to boom slave trade had just begin and he was facing depopulation.