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Fornicator vs Fornicatrix - What's the difference?

fornicator | fornicatrix |

As nouns the difference between fornicator and fornicatrix

is that fornicator is (pejorative) an unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature while fornicatrix is a female fornicator.

fornicator

English

Alternative forms

* fornicatour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.
  • *
    • Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators , nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • * (rfdate) Qu’ran 24:2, M.H. Shakir translation.
    • (As for) the fornicatress' and the ' fornicator , flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * fornacatrix, fornacatrices (f) (very rare) * fornicatress, fornicatresses (f) (very rare)

    fornicatrix

    English

    Noun

    (fornicatrices)
  • A female fornicator.
  • *1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 524:
  • *:She would be a what was it…a fornicatress?…trix ! Fornicatrix is preferable! Very preferable.
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