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whoring, vbl. n.|ˈhɔərɪŋ|
[f. whore v. + -ing1.]
The action of whore v.; fornication; also fig.: spec. in biblical use, applied to idolatry, as an act of unfaithfulness to the true God (cf. whoredom 2): chiefly in phr. to go a whoring.
1535Coverdale Exod. xxxiv. 15 Whan they go a whoringe after their goddes. ― Ps. cv[i]. 38 Thus were they stayned with their owne workes, and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. i. 116 This is the fruits of whoring. 1619in Foster Engl. Factories India (1906) 153 Their private whorings, drunkennesse and such like ryotts. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 582 All the Visions contemporating with Babylon's times must be expounded of such things only as belong to the times of Babylon's whoring. 1668South Serm., Luke xxi. 15 Wks. 1727 V. 416 When with Whoring, and Gaming, and Revelling, they have disabled themselves from paying their Butchers. 1709Steele Tatler No. 60 ⁋2 The common Diversions of Men of Fashion; that is to say, in Whoring, Drinking, and Gaming. 1855[J. D. Burn] Autobiog. Beggar Boy (1859) 73 The whole of this man's conduct tended to..fighting, whoring, and roguery!
So whoring ppl. a.
1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. x. 185 That either we must have a Married or a Whoring Clergy. |