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Example sentences for "harlotry"

Lexicographically close words:
harled; harlequin; harlequinade; harlequins; harlot; harlots; harm; harmattan; harme; harmed
  1. They gave themselves to harlotry for their husbands' cause.

  2. But, Lake, to love the life and not the house, The living house so admirably built Of tissue flawless as the material stars, Wherein the life I love is manifest, Were harlotry no less I know than that.

  3. Should I but love those limbs so rightly planned By ancestry so wise of English earth, It were a simple harlotry in me.

  4. O rare, he doth it as like one of these harlotry Players, as euer I see Falst.

  5. Well he may chance to do some good on her, A peeuish selfe-wild harlotry it is.

  6. For a spirit of harlotry hath led them astray, and they have played the harlot from their God.

  7. Harlotry is the most abominable of all sins in the sight of God, except it be the sin against the Holy Ghost.

  8. If it had turned from its spiritual idolatry and harlotry to obey God it would have been saved from its impending doom.

  9. Harlotry was successful with her, and I could not pay her price.

  10. It was wonderful what harlotry had done in giving her taste in dress, deportment, style of walking, and even in language.

  11. When, later, prostitution became an independent social fact and was adjudged bad, sacral harlotry long continued under the conventionalization and persistence of religious usage (sec.

  12. The early Portuguese travelers to the East found sacral harlotry in Cochin China.

  13. Hahn has called attention[1922] to a passage which proves the existence of sacral harlotry in Scandinavia just before the introduction of Christianity in the tenth century.

  14. There seems also to be some connection between sacral harlotry and the prevention of incest.

  15. Sacral harlotry is a case, the ethical horror of which is very great and very obvious to us, of old religious ideas and customs preserved by the religion into times of greatly changed moral (i.

  16. They insisted on a broad and firm sex taboo and denounced sacral harlotry and child sacrifice together.

  17. There was sacral harlotry for strangers only, the money going as a sacrifice to the goddess.

  18. Sacral harlotry was a substitute for the child sacrifice of females.

  19. Survivals of sacral harlotry are found in historic Egypt.

  20. Farnell[1918] interprets a fragment of Pindar as proof of sacral harlotry at Corinth.

  21. To them harlotry is in all its blasting, withering phases, a familiar story before they have reached the age of ten years.

  22. Most people think of harlotry or prostitution as something secret--something to be kept from the public eye, something to be ashamed of.

  23. For where no extraordinary grace is vouchsafed, nature must needs be fruitful and multiply, and if not in marriage, where will it find its satisfaction save in harlotry or even worse sins?


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    Other words:
    pimping; prostitution; solicitation