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Whoredom   Listen
noun
Whoredom  n.  
1.
The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.
2.
(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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"Whoredom" Quotes from Famous Books



... compassion on thee, O traitress?" Replied Manar al-Sana who lay stretched on the ladder, "I appeal from thee to the Lord of the Heavens, concerning that wherewith thou revilest me and whereof I am innocent! By Allah, I have done no whoredom, but am lawfully married to him, and my Lord knoweth an I speak sooth or not! Indeed, my heart is wroth with thee, by reason of thine excessive hardheartedness against me! How canst thou cast at me the charge of ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Whoredom" :   harlotry, prostitution


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