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whoredom

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɔːdəm/Part of speech nounSorted dehmoorwStarts with WEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. offering sexual intercourse for pay

Word origin

From Middle English horedom, hordom, from Old Norse hórdómr, ultimately corresponding to whore + -dom. Cognate with Swedish hordom (“whoredom”), Middle Dutch hoerdom (“whoredom”).

Used in a sentence

  • Force not your slave-girls to whoredom that ye may seek enjoyment of the life of the world, if they would preserve their chastity.
  • the most enthusiastic punishers of whoredom were often the most evangelical Protestants, who sought the ever-further purification of society (‘Puritans’, as they came to be called in England).

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