| 单词 |
whoremonger |
| 释义 |
whoremonger arch.|ˈhɔəˌmʌŋgə(r)|
[f. whore n. + monger 2. Now familiar mainly from its occurrence in the English Bible.]
One who has dealings with whores; one who practises whoredom; a fornicator, lecher.
1526Tindale Eph. v. 5 No whormonger, other vnclene person,..hath any inheritaunce in the kyngdom of Christ. 1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 53 Lycknest thou to whoarmongers A colage of clarckes and scolears? 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 37. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 408 What was Clement the 5. but an open Whore munger? 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 250 If, by their self-indulgence, the glutton, the drunkard, the loafer,..the whoremonger forfeit a future benefit [etc.].
So whoremonging |ˈhɔəˌmʌŋgɪŋ|, the practice of a whoremonger, fornication.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Pet. ii. 13–16 Nether haue they mynde of any thing elles, than vpon whore⁓monging, and other kyndes of wikednes. 1563St. Andrews Kirk-sess. Reg. (1889) 189 The delacionis gevyn in upon tham..for huyrmongyn inveterat. 1893Voice (N.Y.) 10 Aug., We would dissociate liquor selling from low, corrupt politics, from gambling, from whoremonging and from all other forms of immoral pursuit! |
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