Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Middle English forms of
lewd .
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- noun a
vassal ortenant in the earlyMiddle Ages
Etymologies
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Examples
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but 4 Republicans over the past five years have been caught having flings and sending leud emails.
Conyers' office reacts to reports of wife's guilty plea 2009
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This was a hard Stroke of Fortune; to be oblig'd to, and under the Dominion of, that Woman, whose leud Life with my
Exilius 2008
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Boy, I can sure think of several other regular posters who have been much more hostile, crude, rude, and leud with much less to add to the topics at hand.
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I will therefore repeat the principall matters (omitting those things which he hath common with others, or, that heretofore haue been examined) but farre more modestly then he, least (as I sayd) I cause good and learned mens cares to tingle at his leud and vnseemely rimes: that they are desirous to see or heare him let them enquire at the Stationers.
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Therefore, that I may not be tedious to the reader with long circumstances, I will come to the rehearsing of those things which that railing Germane hath heaped vp in his leud pasquill: whom also
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Therefore, that I may not be tedious to the reader with long circumstances, I will come to the rehearsing of those things which that railing Germane hath heaped vp in his leud pasquill: whom also
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I will therefore repeat the principall matters (omitting those things which he hath common with others, or, that heretofore haue been examined) but farre more modestly then he, least (as I sayd) I cause good and learned mens cares to tingle at his leud and vnseemely rimes: that they are desirous to see or heare him let them enquire at the Stationers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As to those Objections, That the Actors are generally debauch'd, and of leud Conversation; and that no Person who is a known Adulterer, or
A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous
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Pulpit, and the Service books and singing books that could be had, were carried to the fire in the publick Market place; A leud wretch walking before the Train, in his Cope trailing in the dirt, with a Service book in his hand, imitating in an impious scorne the tune, and usurping the words of the Letany; neer the Publick Crosse, all these monuments of
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This delay of ripe time for marriage, besides the loss of the realm (for without posterity of her highness what hope is left unto us?) ministereth matter to these leud tongues to descant upon, and breedeth contempt.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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