prostitutionn.

Brit.

/ˌprɒstᵻˈtjuːʃn/,

/ˌprɒstᵻˈtʃuːʃn/, U.S.

/ˌprɑstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s prostitucion, 1500s– prostitution.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prostitution-, prostitutio.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin prostitution-, prostitutio occupation of a prostitute, licentiousness (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), profanation, idolatry (Vetus Latina) < classical Latin prōstitūt- , past participial stem of prōstituere prostitute v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French prostitution debauchery (second half of the 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), action of dishonouring oneself (1400–10), degrading use, profanation (1588), action of prostituting oneself for money (1611 in Cotgrave), also Spanish prostitución (end of the 15th cent.), Italian prostituzione (1598).In Branch II. apparently by confusion with prostration n., perhaps influenced by the shared association of debasement and humiliation.

I. The action or process of prostituting, or of being prostituted.

1. The action of prostituting or condition of being prostituted; the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment; (in early use also more generally) licentiousness, lewdness, harlotry.

a. Of a woman or girl.Personified in quot. 1785.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun]

bordelc1300

prostitution1553

trugging1591

trade1592

putanism1672

street1750

Magdalenism1840

the life1858

profession1888

social evil1901

hustling1924

game1926

sex trade1931

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cvij By whiche common prostitucion of the quene [L. ob uulgatam reginae pudicitiam] [in Calicut], he maye well iudge that the chyldren borne of her, are not to be estemed as his owne.

1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. ii. xxiv. 306 If the mother haue a comely daughter, shee is contented for money, with her prostitution, and many times is her Bawd.

1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iv. viii. 304 To redeem maydens from prostitution and publication of their bodies.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 155. ⁋4 As if they stood there to sell their Persons to Prostitution.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 60 Till prostitution elbows us aside In all our crowded streets.

1834 Sun (N.Y.) 10 Apr. 2/2 Such men as Samuel Q. Wright, (a bank man) the keeper of a notorious house of assignation, and prostitution.

1878 C. Wake Evol. Morality II. 89 Prostitution seems never to have been recognised at Rome as a legal institution.

1931 F. D. Pasley Muscling In iii. 94 Next to beer and booze, organized prostitution yielded the heaviest profits.

1991 Utne Reader July 20/1 The argument over the decriminalization of prostitution is really a clash between idealism and reality.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane i. 9 It was a city of the damned in which young girls were sold into prostitution.

b. Of a man or boy (esp. with reference to homosexual activity).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > action or practice of male prostitute

prostitution1661

renting1956

1661 T. Wilson Compl. Christian Dict. 323 Noting that prostitution of men and women in the groves, about their Idol-Temples, in honour of their false gods.

1678 S. Speed tr. Valerius Maximus Romae Antiquae Descriptio vi. i. 259 The Boy had made a publick prostitution of his body for Money.

1732 Coll. Voy. & Trav. V. iii. xix. 248 The Israelites allowed men to make a trade of a publick prostitution of themselves to Sodomy.

1795 J. Nott tr. Catullus Poems I. 103 (note) It was the custom not only for the women, but even for the men to sit down, and offer themselves for prostitution.

1814 J. Bentham in L. Crompton Byron & Greek Love (1985) vii. 265 Prostitution by profession and that profession marked by peculiarity of attire has there been observed among the male sex, as in other countries among the female.

1886 R. F. Burton Terminal Ess. in tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. X. 242 According to Gomara there were at Tamalipas houses of male prostitution.

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. xx. 596 There is also a heterosexual prostitution in which females pay males for sexual relations, but this situation is not common.

1975 Times 21 June 2/3 Runaway boys..were procured for a male prostitution ring by offers of food and shelter.

2005 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 Nov. 12 Sleeping rough on the streets of London from the age of 16, his options were male prostitution or crime.

†2. In extended use: a prostitute, harlot. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

drivelling1570

twigger1573

punka1575

hackney1579

customer1583

commodity1591

streetwalker1591

traffic1591

trug1591

hackster1592

polecat1593

stale1593

mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

pagan1600

hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

community1606

miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

croshabell1607

prostitute1607

pug1607

venturer1607

nag1608

curtal1611

jumbler1611

land-frigate1611

walk-street1611

doll-common1612

turn-up1612

barber's chaira1616

commonera1616

public commonera1616

trader1615

venturea1616

stewpot1616

tweak1617

carry-knave1623

prostibule1623

fling-dusta1625

mar-taila1625

night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

meretrician1631

painted ladya1637

treadle1638

buttock1641

night-walker1648

mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

fallen woman1659

girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

quaedama1670

small girl1671

visor-mask1672

vizard-mask1672

bulker1673

marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

fling-stink1679

Whetstone whore1684

man-leech1687

nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

cocodette1867

cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan i. i. sig. B7 What to a Brothell, to behold an impudent prostitution, fye on't I shall hate the whole sex to see her.

1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme iii. sig. E2^v I may grace her with the name of a Curtizan, a Backslider, a Prostitution, or such a Toy, but when all comes to al tis but a plaine Pung.

3. figurative. Devotion or application to an unworthy or corrupt cause or purpose, esp. for personal gain; debasement or corruption.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] > degrading by unworthy use

prostitution1609

1609 G. Markham Famous Whore ii. i. sig. E2 I am no courts disgrace, No cities Prostitution, countries shame.

1646 H. Moseley in J. Suckling Fragmenta Aurea To Rdr. sig. A3^v In this Age of Paper prostitutions, a man may buy the reputation of some Authors into the price of their Volume.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 47 Peoples prostrations of..[Civill Liberties and Proprieties] when they may lawfully helpe it, are prophane prostitutions.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. Ded. sig. di^v A prostitution of all Manners in contempt of all Government.

1741 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 44 The Honour of Knighthood..an Honour in that illustrious Reign not made cheap by Prostitution.

1810 T. Jefferson Let. 26 May in Writings (1984) 1226 We have long enough suffered under the base prostitution of law to party passions.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 340 They live..on the prostitution of their talents to gratify..personal animosities.

1922 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 21 June 4/1 We must admit the advent of an era of industrial selfishness, commercial immorality and political prostitution.

1991 J. Hersey Antonietta 89 You are obliged to support your great gifts..in various forms of musical prostitution.

†II. The action of prostrating, or condition of being prostrated.

4. = prostration n. 5. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun]

fallOE

confusionc1290

discomfiturea1400

castc1400

overthrowc1440

confoundinga1450

jeofail1546

prostitution1567

lurch1584

worsting1607

unhorsing1608

supplantation1617

defeat1676

overset1789

punishment1811

overthrowal1862

beating1883

unhorsement1884

whoop-ass1974

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 302 What crueltye can be greater..then an humble prostitution, with so many teares in token of repentance?

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 19^v Heauen..shall bee made an Artillerie-house of Hayle-stones, and no Plannet reuolue any thing but prostitution and vastitie.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prostitution
释义	prostitutionn. Brit. /ˌprɒstᵻˈtjuːʃn/, /ˌprɒstᵻˈtʃuːʃn/, U.S. /ˌprɑstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s prostitucion, 1500s– prostitution. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prostitution-, prostitutio. Etymology: < post-classical Latin prostitution-, prostitutio occupation of a prostitute, licentiousness (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), profanation, idolatry (Vetus Latina) < classical Latin prōstitūt- , past participial stem of prōstituere prostitute v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French prostitution debauchery (second half of the 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), action of dishonouring oneself (1400–10), degrading use, profanation (1588), action of prostituting oneself for money (1611 in Cotgrave), also Spanish prostitución (end of the 15th cent.), Italian prostituzione (1598).In Branch II. apparently by confusion with prostration n., perhaps influenced by the shared association of debasement and humiliation. I. The action or process of prostituting, or of being prostituted. 1. The action of prostituting or condition of being prostituted; the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment; (in early use also more generally) licentiousness, lewdness, harlotry. a. Of a woman or girl.Personified in quot. 1785. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] bordelc1300 prostitution1553 trugging1591 trade1592 putanism1672 street1750 Magdalenism1840 the life1858 profession1888 social evil1901 hustling1924 game1926 sex trade1931 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cvij By whiche common prostitucion of the quene [L. ob uulgatam reginae pudicitiam] [in Calicut], he maye well iudge that the chyldren borne of her, are not to be estemed as his owne. 1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. ii. xxiv. 306 If the mother haue a comely daughter, shee is contented for money, with her prostitution, and many times is her Bawd. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iv. viii. 304 To redeem maydens from prostitution and publication of their bodies. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 155. ⁋4 As if they stood there to sell their Persons to Prostitution. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 60 Till prostitution elbows us aside In all our crowded streets. 1834 Sun (N.Y.) 10 Apr. 2/2 Such men as Samuel Q. Wright, (a bank man) the keeper of a notorious house of assignation, and prostitution. 1878 C. Wake Evol. Morality II. 89 Prostitution seems never to have been recognised at Rome as a legal institution. 1931 F. D. Pasley Muscling In iii. 94 Next to beer and booze, organized prostitution yielded the heaviest profits. 1991 Utne Reader July 20/1 The argument over the decriminalization of prostitution is really a clash between idealism and reality. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane i. 9 It was a city of the damned in which young girls were sold into prostitution. b. Of a man or boy (esp. with reference to homosexual activity). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > action or practice of male prostitute prostitution1661 renting1956 1661 T. Wilson Compl. Christian Dict. 323 Noting that prostitution of men and women in the groves, about their Idol-Temples, in honour of their false gods. 1678 S. Speed tr. Valerius Maximus Romae Antiquae Descriptio vi. i. 259 The Boy had made a publick prostitution of his body for Money. 1732 Coll. Voy. & Trav. V. iii. xix. 248 The Israelites allowed men to make a trade of a publick prostitution of themselves to Sodomy. 1795 J. Nott tr. Catullus Poems I. 103 (note) It was the custom not only for the women, but even for the men to sit down, and offer themselves for prostitution. 1814 J. Bentham in L. Crompton Byron & Greek Love (1985) vii. 265 Prostitution by profession and that profession marked by peculiarity of attire has there been observed among the male sex, as in other countries among the female. 1886 R. F. Burton Terminal Ess. in tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. X. 242 According to Gomara there were at Tamalipas houses of male prostitution. 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. xx. 596 There is also a heterosexual prostitution in which females pay males for sexual relations, but this situation is not common. 1975 Times 21 June 2/3 Runaway boys..were procured for a male prostitution ring by offers of food and shelter. 2005 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 Nov. 12 Sleeping rough on the streets of London from the age of 16, his options were male prostitution or crime. †2. In extended use: a prostitute, harlot. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan i. i. sig. B7 What to a Brothell, to behold an impudent prostitution, fye on't I shall hate the whole sex to see her. 1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme iii. sig. E2^v I may grace her with the name of a Curtizan, a Backslider, a Prostitution, or such a Toy, but when all comes to al tis but a plaine Pung. 3. figurative. Devotion or application to an unworthy or corrupt cause or purpose, esp. for personal gain; debasement or corruption. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] > degrading by unworthy use prostitution1609 1609 G. Markham Famous Whore ii. i. sig. E2 I am no courts disgrace, No cities Prostitution, countries shame. 1646 H. Moseley in J. Suckling Fragmenta Aurea To Rdr. sig. A3^v In this Age of Paper prostitutions, a man may buy the reputation of some Authors into the price of their Volume. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 47 Peoples prostrations of..[Civill Liberties and Proprieties] when they may lawfully helpe it, are prophane prostitutions. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. Ded. sig. di^v A prostitution of all Manners in contempt of all Government. 1741 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 44 The Honour of Knighthood..an Honour in that illustrious Reign not made cheap by Prostitution. 1810 T. Jefferson Let. 26 May in Writings (1984) 1226 We have long enough suffered under the base prostitution of law to party passions. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 340 They live..on the prostitution of their talents to gratify..personal animosities. 1922 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 21 June 4/1 We must admit the advent of an era of industrial selfishness, commercial immorality and political prostitution. 1991 J. Hersey Antonietta 89 You are obliged to support your great gifts..in various forms of musical prostitution. †II. The action of prostrating, or condition of being prostrated. 4. = prostration n. 5. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun] fallOE confusionc1290 discomfiturea1400 castc1400 overthrowc1440 confoundinga1450 jeofail1546 prostitution1567 lurch1584 worsting1607 unhorsing1608 supplantation1617 defeat1676 overset1789 punishment1811 overthrowal1862 beating1883 unhorsement1884 whoop-ass1974 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 302 What crueltye can be greater..then an humble prostitution, with so many teares in token of repentance? 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 19^v Heauen..shall bee made an Artillerie-house of Hayle-stones, and no Plannet reuolue any thing but prostitution and vastitie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553
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