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† Gomorr(h)ean, a. and n. Obs.
[f. Gomorrah, Gomorrha, on analogy of other names in -ean.
According to the system used in the Bible of 1611, the normal transliteration of Heb. ﻋămōrā would be *Amorah. The Gr. form, however, was Γόµοῤῥα; in the N.T. this was adopted as Gomorrha, while in the O.T. the translators employed the hybrid spelling Gomorrah.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Gomorrah (see Gen. xviii, xix).
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 37 b, Gomorrhean and Sodomiticall brimstone. 1593Nashe Strange News Wks. (Grosart) II. 277 The tedious wildernesse of this Gomorian Epistle.
B. n. An inhabitant of Gomorrah; hence, one who follows the practices of its inhabitants.
1522Skelton Why not to Court 469 The Gommoryans also Were brought to deedly wo As Scrypture recordis. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. M iij, Hys diabolical rable of sorcerouse Gomorreanes. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 3 When the Sodomits and Gomorreans had filled vp the measures of their iniquitie. 1613Dekker Strange Horse-Race etc. Wks. (Gosart) III. 369 The Cimerians, the Sodomites, and the Gomorrhæans.
So † Gomorreal a.
1550Bale Apol. 59 But where are thy scriptures, to prove a perpetuyte in thy Gomorreal vowes? |