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单词 lechery
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lecheryn.

Brit. /ˈlɛtʃ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈlɛtʃ(ə)ri/
Forms: Middle English leccherie, Middle English–1600s lecherie, (Middle English lecherye), Middle English lechury(e, lechure, lechuri, -wry, lec(c)heri, ? lecȝery, licchery, liccherie, litcheri, lychory, lychery, lycheri, lychore, luchery, Middle English lecchery(e, lechory, lechori(e, lichery, lichory, Middle English–1500s licherie, Middle English lecuri ?, 1500s leicherie, luchrie, lichorie, lychorie, lichery, 1500s–1600s letcherie, 1600s–1700s letchery, leachery, Middle English– lechery.
Etymology: < Old French lecherie, licherie, < lecheur lecher n.1
a. Habitual indulgence of lust; lewdness of living. †Also, an instance of this.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lecherousness or lechery
lecheryc1230
lecherheda1325
lickerousnessc1380
lecherness?c1510
caterwauling1530
ruttery1567
cockishness1573
palliardise1581
routerya1600
salacity1605
saltness1611
catting1681
tomcatting1886
whorehopping1916
skirt patrol1941
skirt-chasing1950
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lecherousness or lechery > instance of
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c1230 Hali Meid. 11 Þat is te lust of leccherie þat riuleð þer wiðinne.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3510 Oc horedom ðat ðu ne do, Ne wend no lecherie to.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 79 Of þe herte comen yvel þouȝtis, in yvel wordis; mansleyingis, avoutrieris, leccheries.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋762 After Glotonye thanne comth leccherie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10046 Þe chastite o þis leuidi Ouercumms al lust o lecheri [Gött. lichery].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6476 Do no lecchery bi no wommon.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3656 Leccherye..is hogges lif.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 29v To waulter, with as litle shame, in open lecherie, as Swyne do here in the common myre.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V4v The Falcons fercenes, Sparrows letchery.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 94 Nothing but letchery all incontinent varlots. View more context for this quotation
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2649 And this I holde, that secret letcherie Is a lesse sinne then close hypocrisie.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 123 The Salacity of a Debauched Life, or lechery produced and confirmed by habit.
1888 19th Cent. July 40 A new motif for art has also been discovered in death, disease, and lechery.
personified.c1400 Rom. Rose 3914 Over-al regnith Lecchery, Whos might yit growith night and day.a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 151 Lichery, that lathly cors,..berand lyk a bagit hors.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D3 And next to him rode lustfull Lechery, Vpon a bearded Gote.1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 17 You cherish three daughters, Pride, Covetousnesse and Lechery.
b. figurative.
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1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) x. sig. Bvv/1 Of this pryde comyth a spirituel or ghostli lecheri.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. C1v The Vsurer liues by the lechery of mony, and is Bawd to his owne bags.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. Gv [He] will violate the ecclesiastical secret rather than lose the Leachery of his Tattle.
1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 38 Lash him, and mortify his Letchery of writing Nonsense.
1692 E. Walker tr. Epictetus Enchiridion (1737) xlvi For Boasting is a most intemperate Vice..'tis the Leach'ry of the Mind.
c. transferred. Luxurious or inordinate pleasure.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] > excessive pleasure
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a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. i. 80 Did'st thou know What ravishing lechery it is to enter An Ordinarie, cap a pe, trim'd like a Gallant.
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