单词 | crime against nature |
释义 | > as lemmascrime against nature P2. crime against nature: an act considered contrary to the preferred or accepted norms or values of a society, esp. an act perceived as sexually deviant (and sometimes legally defined as such). [Probably originally after French crime contre nature (1667 in the passage translated in quot. 1683).] ΚΠ 1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France ii. 412 He was burnt alive for a crime against nature; and this was a Bon-fire to the People, whom he had most horribly vexed and abused. 1712 J. Gardiner Pract. Expos. Beatitudes vi. 165 Fornication, Adultery, and that horrid Crime against Nature, not fit to be named. 1799 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue La-Peyrouse ii. iii. 24 Your union began with a crime against nature. 1815 W. Johnson Rep. Supreme Court N.-Y. 11 38 He would give in evidence that the plaintiff..committed the detestable crime against nature on a certain beast called a cow. 1859 Times 9 Nov. 8/3 It is no less a crime against nature and against all human affections. 1949 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 40 188 Whenever a defendant has been adjudged guilty of either a crime against nature, rape, or crime against children,..the court is then ordered not to impose sentence on the defendant until..a determination is made as to whether the defendant is a sexually dangerous person. 2003 A. Franken Lies xxx. 252 Many people think of anti-miscegenation laws as being the same as segregation, but they're not. Miscegenation is about the ‘mongrelization’ of the white race, which to this day is considered by some to be a crime against nature. < as lemmas |
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