单词 | lechery |
释义 | lecheryn. a. Habitual indulgence of lust; lewdness of living. †Also, an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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 lecheryc1230 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. b. figurative. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] > excessive pleasure lecherya1640 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1230 |
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