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They also set her apart from both the cortigiana di lume and the meretrice who depended solely on selling their bodies for financial support.
Lapham's Quarterly: Call-Girls and Courtesans: Getting An Education in 2009 and 1570 2009
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Salomonem, qui aliunde nasci non potuit, nisi ex Bathseba, conjuncto David semine, quamvis meretrice, conjunxit eos
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At dixerunt, Numquid ut cum meretrice aget cum sorore nostra?
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Among the examples given by Dr Rashdall from this source are a sconce of two shillings for drunkenness and a sconce in wine inflicted upon the head cook for being found "cum una meretrice."
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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Notas autem et indicia, quibus intemerata Christi sponsa ab impura illa et abominanda meretrice (ecclesiam impiorum intellige) discerni possit, asseveramus, neque ab antiquitatis praerogativa repetendas, nec usurpatis falso titulis, nec a successione perpetua episcoporum, nec a certi loci designatione, nec a multitudine hominum in eundem errorem consentientium.
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[80] _Arguta meretrice potes Davoque Chremeque Eludente senem comis garrire libellas Unus vivorum, Fundani_.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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-- The reply is, "de meretrice et de femina honesta sive conjugata, ant non."
Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832
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Oliud quoque cum meretrice intantum diffentire fertur, quodftabeademplantatafuerit, uelinfiukuofaperpetua martere, uelomnino arefcere dicitur.
Henrici Cor. Agrippae ab Nettesheym ... De occulta philosophia libri III. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim 1550
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49, Art. 6: "_Voluptates meretricias vir in uxore quoerit quando nihil aliud in ea attendit quam quod in meretrice attenderet_" (A husband seeks from his wife harlot pleasures when he asks from her only what he might ask from a harlot).
Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921
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