单词 | spiritual sodomy |
释义 | > as lemmasspiritual sodomy 2. figurative. Any behaviour that is considered to be immoral, unnatural, demeaning, or shameful. Often with preceding modifying adjective, as spiritual sodomy, etc. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 7 Symonie..is gostli sodomie and eresie. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 114 They shall see the ugly shape of that creature which they have made an Idoll, and committed spirituall Sodomy with it, as degenerate a villany, as to commit filthinesse with a beast. 1763 Scots Mag. June 319/2 It is a sodomy of soul, for which no punishment can be adequate in this world. 1838 Southern Lit. Messenger July 421/1 That high crime of thought, that sodomy of the intellect, which has no parallel among a christian people. 1957 Stanford (Calif.) Daily 1 Feb. 2/2 A witnessing of moral, ethical and political sodomy committed in defiance of international law. 2006 Victorian Poetry 44 169 Retreating from the embodied world is tantamount, as Culbertson observes, to spiritual sodomy. < as lemmas |
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