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Whoredom n.

The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.

(Script.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. "O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not... turn unto their God."

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Etymology of 'Whoredom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whoredom" Quotes from Famous Books

... to his Sheep-shearing, and placed a Whore (Tamar) in his Way, in the Posture of Temptation, so made him commit Incest and Whoredom both together. ...

— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe

... Scobble for whoredom whips his wife; and cries He'll slit her nose; but blubb'ring, she replies, Good sir, make no more cuts i' th' outward skin, One slit's enough ...

— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick

... for having Magistrates and Justices in every Congregation, and of the 8. Act of the said Parliament against Swearing, Drinking and mocking of Piety, and all other Acts of Parliament for restraining or punishing of Vice; particularly for the better restraining of the sin of Whoredom that each Magistrate in every Congregation exact and make compt to the Session of fourty Pounds for each Fornicatour and Fornicatrix, of an hundred Merks for each one of their relapse in Fornication, of an hundreth Pounds for each ...

— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

... dangerous inconveniences; take them away, it will be worse. Although God say, there shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a whorekeeper of the sonnes of Israel: yet these men say all manner of whoredom is not forbidden. In these and these cases it is not ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... I was but too sure of the fact, I lived therefore in open avowed incest and whoredom, and all under the appearance of an honest wife; and though I was not much touched with the crime of it, yet the action had something in it shocking to nature, and made my husband, as he thought ...

— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe

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