单词 | whoredom |
释义 | whoredomn. Now chiefly archaic or used self-consciously for stylistic effect. 1. a. Fornication, adultery; prostitution, sexual activity with prostitutes; sexual promiscuity. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > illicit whoredomOE harlotrya1387 brothelry?1526 chambering1526 bitchery1533 buttock banqueting1555 bitching1675 OE Glosses to Gospel of Nicodemus (St. Omer 202) in J. E. Cross Two Old Eng. Apocrypha (1996) 5 [Non est natus ex] fornicatione : hordome. lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 85 Se halige wer Nicholaus..þohte heom to helpone..þæt..þa mædene ne sceoldon wurþen befylde mid þan openlice hordome. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 57 Ne beo þu nawiht monslaht, ne in hordom dei ne naht. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9857 He leuede muche in hordom, & huld vnder þe quene rosemounde. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 334 Þat he be getyn..In hordome. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxxviii. E By whordome is she gotten with childe. 1561 N. Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 128 The renunceing of the warld and plesouris of the body, nocht only fra vnlesum huirdum, bot fra mariage sumtyme to thame lesum. 1605 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Exam. Menacing & Disleal Petition 102 They..set up bordell houses for maintenance of whoredom & baudry. 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. iii. 243 But for Whoredom and Adultery they found Instances without number; and of many other unnatural practices and secret Lusts. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 833 Now flush'd with drunk'ness, now with whoredom pale. View more context for this quotation 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 21 Nov. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) VI. 73 Those people appear to View horedom as a necessary evile. 1961 C. Isherwood Diary 27 Sept. in Sixties (2010) II. 115 John [Osborne] is now down in Sussex, living in open whoredom with Penelope Gilliatt. 2009 Variety (Nexis) 28 Sept. Once the children leave the train, they're caught up in a bad dream of cruel adulthood, juvenile criminality, avarice, dishonesty, shoplifting and whoredom. b. Usually in plural. A sexual act regarded as immoral or illicit. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > acts of whoredoma1225 a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 33 Ȝe nulleð forleten hordomes and ȝifernesse and druncnesse. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Num. v. 13 Bote þe auoutrie is hud..for sheo is not foundyn in þe hordam. 1539 Bible (Great) 2 Kings ix. 22 Ye whordomes of thy mother Iezabel. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiv. 249 Otherwise they are not mariages but whoredomes. 1611 Bible (King James) Hosea i. 2 A wife of whoredomes, and children of whoredomes . View more context for this quotation 1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 234 Notwithstanding his Whoredoms. 1862 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury II. ii. 114 He will never be converted from his whoredoms and ruinous follies. 2019 @therealEmmaHale 29 May in twitter.com (accessed 6 June 2019) In the monogamic system, men can't control themselves and will commit whoredoms when tied to only one woman. 2. figurative. Sin, corruption; the action or practice of debasing oneself, compromising one's principles, etc., for profit or advantage. In biblical and religious use esp. idolatry, unfaithfulness to the true God. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] heathenessec900 heathenshipa1000 heathendomc1000 idolatrya1325 mammetryc1330 spiritual fornicationa1340 whoredomc1350 prepucya1382 miscreancea1393 imagery1395 gentility?a1425 paganismc1425 paganityc1450 prepucec1475 Mahometry1481 superstitiousness1526 uncircumcision1526 whoring1530 idolry1535 paynimhood1543 image-worshipping1544 paganrya1550 idololatry1550 gentilism1561 old religion1567 heathenishness1571 image worship1572 heathenry1577 irreligiousness?1577 idolatrousness1583 uncircumcisedness1583 irreligion1598 ethnicism1600 infidelity1603 superstition1603 heathenism1605 idolism1608 miscreancy1611 misreligion1623 Baalisma1625 iconolatry1624 idolomania1624 idolomany1624 idolizing1637 idol-worship1667 ethnicity1772 symbololatry1828 Baal-worship1834 irreligionism1843 gentiledom1844 triology1894 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cv. 36 Þer[þe] is slaine for synȝes & filed in her werkes, & dede horedome in her fyndeinges. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 58 Kynrede of hordom sekiþ siche signes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. iii. 2 Thorow thy whordome and shamefull blasphemies, is the londe defyled. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea i. 2 The londe hath committed greate whordome agaynst the Lorde. 1593 J. Napier Plaine Discouery Reuelation St. Iohn To Rdr. sig. A6 Their seuen hilled citie Rome, painted out..by Saint Iohn, as the mother of all spirituall whoredome. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 28 Think you there's but One Whoredom? Whoredom, All, But when our Reason licenses Delight. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 13 Whoredom is to have many other objects of sinful love. 1973 T. Crouse Boys on Bus ii. x. 215 Many flacks were former journalists who secretly loathed themselves for sinking into the whoredom of press agentry. 2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 105 All the pretty pills and all the fraud and whoredom of psychotherapy and mass-market spirituality in this world are as nothing compared to the ancient words of the Gospel of Thomas. 2018 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 15 Oct. 40 Not since, at the 11th hour, Rupert [Murdoch]'s mastheads abandoned John Howard for Kevin Rudd in 2007,..have we witnessed such a dual exercise in commercial opportunism and editorial whoredom. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women > one who horlinga1200 holourc1230 whore-mana1325 putourc1390 putroura1425 whoremastera1425 whoremonger?a1472 putyer1477 whoredomerc1485 holarda1500 whore-keeper1530 mutton-monger1532 smell-smock?1545 stallion1553 woman-louper1568 limb-lifter1579 Lusty Laurence1582 punker1582 wencher1593 womanist1608 belly-bumper1611 sheep-biter1611 stringer1613 fleshmongera1616 hunt-smock1624 whorer1624 womanizer1626 woman errant1628 mongera1637 linen-lifter1652 whorster1654 whorehopper1664 cousin1694 smocker1708 mutton-master1729 woman dangler1850 masher1872 chippy chaser1887 chaser1894 stud1895 molrower1896 skirt-chaser1942 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) iv. 31 Na commoun leare, Na commoun vicious hurdomare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE |
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