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- noun Plural form of
harlotry .
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In subsequent passages the Nahum Pesher quotes additional verses from Nahum to describe a change in government and the reign of a woman: “Because of the countless fornications of the prostitute, the alluring mistress of sorcery, who ensnares nations with her harlotries and people with her sorcery” Nahum 3:4.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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In subsequent passages the Nahum Pesher quotes additional verses from Nahum to describe a change in government and the reign of a woman: “Because of the countless fornications of the prostitute, the alluring mistress of sorcery, who ensnares nations with her harlotries and people with her sorcery” Nahum 3:4.
Women Who Ruled: Salome Alexandra Jan 2008
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Well then, I fancy that he will live amid revelries and harlotries, and love will be the lord and master of the house.
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Thee into a far country, to spend it upon harlotries.
The Confessions 1999
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The le before zenunim is a le of relation (K.S. 105) -- "she is pregnant relative to her harlotries," in which plural lies an exaggeration.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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So then it served not to my use, but rather to my perdition, since I went about to get so good a portion of my substance into my own keeping; and I kept not my strength for Thee, but wandered from Thee into a far country, to spend it upon harlotries.
The Fourth Book 1909
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Nahum alludes, where he denounces Nineveh as a "well-favored harlot," the multitude of whose harlotries was notorious.
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I fancy that he will live amid revelries and harlotries, and love will be the lord and master of the house.
The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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Madame d'Armagnac was ashamed of having done all these harlotries to the profit of death, and of betraying Savoisy the better to save him; but this slight remorse was lame as the greater, and came tardily.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Madame d'Armagnac was ashamed of having done all these harlotries to the profit of death, and of betraying Savoisy the better to save him; but this slight remorse was lame as the greater, and came tardily.
Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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