Whoredom vs Lascivious - What's the difference?
whoredom | lascivious |
The state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication.
*1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, (w) XXXVIII:
*:And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom . And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 *2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 14:
*: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).
Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
As a noun whoredom
is the state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication.As an adjective lascivious is
wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.whoredom
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