Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting in lewdness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.
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- adjective pertaining to
scortation ;lewd ,fornicatory
Etymologies
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Examples
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Delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love: after which follow the pleasures of insanity concerning scortatory love 1794
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Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.
Ulysses 2003
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Whatever Anne's reason for doing so, it was to this scortatory old scab that she turned for help in cozening the fair young Countess.
She Stands Accused 1935
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Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Here are know-nothing religions, or churches that proscribe intellect, scortatory religions; slave-holding and slave-trading religions; and, even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the witness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
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Here are know-nothing religions, or churches that proscribe intellect; scortatory religions; slave-holding and slave-trading religions; and, even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
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We have therefore inherited scores of synonyms for prostitute that seemingly cover -- or, rather, uncover -- every possible nuance of the scortatory hierarchy, from the tinselly, grand courtesan to the abject, base slut.
pavonine commented on the word scortatory
lewd
November 6, 2007
qms commented on the word scortatory
If license should be ballyhooed
By Hefner or one of his brood -
If scurrilous and hortatory
Can we call it scortatory,
A dogmatic version of lewd?
January 7, 2016