scortatoryadj.
/ˈskɔːtətəri/ rare.
‘Pertaining to or consisting in, fornication or lewdness’ (Webster, 1864).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > relating to or of nature of fornication
fornicatory1651
fornicarious1688
scortatory1794
1794 (title) tr. Swedenborg's Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugial Love: after which follow the pleasures of Insanity concerning Scortatory Love.
1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 183 Here are..churches that proscribe intellect; scortatory religions.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 193 Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.
1942 D. Thomas Let. 30 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 259 I hope..that the Monico made up..for the absence of one ventripotent scortatory Krut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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adj.1794- interlinings
- interlink
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- interlobate
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- interlocation
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