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Whoredom   Listen
noun
Whoredom  n.  
1.
The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.
2.
(Script.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. "O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not... turn unto their God."





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"Whoredom" Quotes from Famous Books



... constancy with which he sets forth the relation of Israel to Jehovah under the figure of the marriage-covenant; thus making unfaithfulness to God, and especially idolatry and idolatrous alliances, to be spiritual adultery and whoredom. This fact affords a key to the interpretation of the first three chapters, where the nature of the transactions requires that we understand them not as historic events, but as prophetic symbols occurring only in vision. The remaining eleven chapters contain ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows
... one of them committed with the captayne's wyfe of the forte of that citty, with an enterprise moued by the captaine to the cittyzens of the same for rebellion, and the good and dutyfull aunswere of them: with other pityfull euents rysing of that notable and outragious vyce of whoredom. ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
... the sex; for they say, 'How can there be a love of the sex, unless it be tending mutually to meet, and reciprocal, so as to seek an eternal union, which consists in two becoming one flesh?'" To this the angelic spirits added, "In heaven they are in total ignorance what whoredom is; nor do they know that it exists, or that its existence is even possible. The angels feel a chill all over the body at the idea of unchaste or extra-conjugial love; and on the other hand, they feel a genial warmth throughout the body arising from chaste ...
— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg
... with brims of gold if such garlands crown a Queen of our faith. And I lament their lack if by it the King's Highness maketh war upon our faith. And Privy Seal shall dine with the Bishop of Winchester, and righteousness kiss with the whoredom of abomination.' ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford


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