| 单词 | to play the harlot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the harlot (formerly also †harlots) to play the harlot (formerly also †harlots): to behave as or like a harlot (sense 2b); to commit adultery, to be unfaithful. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Now chiefly with reference to biblical usage. Cf. to play the whore at whore n. Phrases 1.Chiefly of women, but in early use also occasionally of men; see, for example, quots. 1583 and a1670. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution to walk the street(s)1530 to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535 whore1547 strumpc1550 strumpet1627 prostitute1631 to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754 hustle1930 ho1972 tom1981 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxiii. B She vsed hir whordome..and remembred the dayes off hir youth, wherin she had played the harlot in the londe off Egipte. 1583 A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places ii. xi. 475/2 He, which straieth in carnall fellowship, and plaieth the harlot, may easilie foorthwith procreate a child. 1616 P. Hay Vision Balaams Asse 139 It is the faith of Rome, corrupted indeed with Idolatrous worship, & she hath fallen from her spouse Christ to play the harlot. 1665 T. Brooks Privie Key of Heaven 430 Those whores, who..will play the Harlots before their Husbands eyes. a1670 J. Scott Staggering State Sc. Statesmen (1754) 27 He had quitted his wife by playing the harlot by her. 1762 J. Mitchell Female Pilgrim 130 She revolted from him, and went about playing the harlot with every lover she met with. 1832 Bristol Mercury 8 Dec. Mary, the wife of Botts, wandered in the streets..and she played the harlot with every man who gave her sixpence. 1934 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 3 Jan. 6/1 It is high time that the democratic party stopped playing the harlot with interests and people who never have cared for it. 2012 B. N. Peterson Ezekiel in Context iii. 225 As an unfaithful wife who played the harlot, Yahweh had every right to enact the proceedings of divorce. < as lemmas |
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