单词 | scortation |
释义 | scortationn. rare. Fornication. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > fornication lair1296 fornicationa1300 holourya1400 scortation1556 quadrulapse1595 bastardry1605 fornicating1620 houghmagandya1700 1556 J. Knox Ansueris Quest. Baptisme in Wks. (1855) IV. 127 The Halie Gaist..wald have restraynit and exceptit it, as he hath done scortatioun. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 85 The sanctifying of the unbelieving Husband or Wife cannot be meant of making or continuing the Marriage lawfull, in opposition to Adultery (or scortation). 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 919 I see no reason why the modesty of the Bee and of the Drone, whereby they abandon publick scortation and venery, should debar them of the private use of copulation. 1794 tr. Swedenborg's Delights Wisd. Conjugial Love (1811) II. 312 It is a scortation more opposite to conjugial love than the common scortation, which is called simple adultery. 1885 L. Oliphant Sympneumata 113 Rapacity,..filth, and scortation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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