单词 | prostituting |
释义 | prostitutingn. The action, process, or practice of behaving or working as a prostitute. Also figurative: application to an unworthy cause; debasement, corruption. ΚΠ 1591 H. Barrow Plaine Refut. Giffardes Bk. ii. 60 The prostituting and prophaning of the holie things of God. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Abandonnement, an abandonning..giuing ouer..prostituting vnto others. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 716 All now was turn'd to jollitie and game..Marrying or prostituting, as befell. View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. viii. 113 Some confessed they owed their Greatness and Wealth to Sodomy or Incest, others to the prostituting of their own Wives and Daughters. 1908 Marion (Ohio) Weekly Star 31 Oct. 4/6 The prostituting of law to serve the mob or the debauching of courts to shield the rich can have no existence in the United States. 1932 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 12 May 1/7 The prostituting of the Wisconsin tax commission to serve as a political tool..is racketeering of the most apparent sort. 1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Sept. 38 I thought somebody might give me a chance to do something better with my life. But I was too attracted to streets and the money and prostituting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prostitutingadj. That acts or works as a prostitute; (figurative) corrupting, debasing, degrading. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [adjective] vile1297 derogative1477 derogatory1502 vild1568 derogatoriousa1575 lessening1592 dishonoured1608 indignous1611 derogant1616 unmanning1625 infimatinga1641 prostituting1646 embasing1652 menial1673 degrading1684 debasing1775 vilifying1781 degradatory1783 dishonouring1843 relegating1872 demeaning1880 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adjective] > relating to or of nature of prostitute > practising prostitution prostituting1646 bulking1677 night-walking1709 streetwalking1726 gay?1795 charvering1889 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 247 She is plainly termed πορνη, which signifies not an Hostesse, but a pecuniary and prostituting Harlot. View more context for this quotation a1820 J. Woodhouse Life Crispinus Scriblerus x. in Life & Poet. Wks. (1896) I. 184/2 Not this, alone, hurt Crispin's honest heart, while acting, here, his prostituting part. 1849 E. Sargent Songs of Sea 197 The paltering, prying, prostituting pander! 1895 G. Allen Woman who Did vii. 90 Most low minds, indeed, imagine absolute hypocrisy must be involved in any striving after goodness..on the part of any who happen to disbelieve in..their own vile woman-degrading and prostituting morality. 1930 N. S. B. Gras Industr. Evol. xviii. 232 We may put down this novelty store as a modern representative of the prostituting influence of marketing mechanism. 1982 Times 6 July 4/3 Miners who go up to London..can be seduced by the life there. London is a prostituting place. 1998 Compar. Stud. Sci. & Hist. 40 508 M represents his condition as that of the son of a whore, as the product of the prostituting nation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591adj.1646 |
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