Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of sodomy; given to or guilty of sodomy; grossly wicked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.
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- adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of,
sodomy .
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Examples
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"sodomitical" practices and not to identities, he does crucially make Byron guilty by association
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO ASSUME when Godbeer spoke of a Jamestown colony of almost all men for so many many years "that much of the sex that took place ... was sodomitical."
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Coleridge also insisted that it was wise to think of [sodomitical] disposition [s], as a
Introduction 2006
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Equiano's attack on the white sailors as "the true sons of Belial" for the appellation involves the threat of sodomitical rape.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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By situating Equiano's narrative within a masochistic discourse of sodomitical desire, Daniel O'Quinn reminds us that the discourses of abolition and the slave trade had much to say about alternative forms of sexuality.
Introduction 2006
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In Yucatan images were found by Bernal Diaz proving the sodomitical propensities of the people (Bancroft v. 198).
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By referring to the sailors as the "Sons of Belial," Equiano subtly figures the sailor's threat to George's conversion as the threat of sodomitical rape.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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The threat of sodomitical rape unfolds into a horrifying narrative of sexual violence and national vengeance which ultimately recoils on
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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In Judges 19 the master of the house offers his daughter and the Levite's wife as a way of saving his guest from sodomitical rape.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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By their sodomitical impurities they meant to acknowledge the Heavens as the cause of fruitfulness independently upon, and in opposition to, Jehovah; 391 therefore Jehovah, by raining upon them not genial showers but brimstone from heaven, not only destroyed the inhabitants, but also changed all that country, which was before as the garden of God, into brimstone and salt that is not sown nor beareth, neither any grass groweth therein.
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