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Sodomy   Listen
noun
Sodomy  n.  Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... understood that confirmed heretics would be put to death. In 1546, in answer to the Pope's invitation to the Council of Trent, Bullinger indignantly repudiates the insinuation that the Protestant cantons were heretical, "for, by the grace of God, we have always punished the vices of heresy and sodomy with fire, and have looked upon them, and still look upon them, with horror."[262] This accusation of heresy inflamed the zeal of the reformers against heretics, in order to prove to the Catholics that they had no sympathy with them. On these grounds Bullinger recommended the execution of ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton



Words linked to "Sodomy" :   sodomise, anal sex, sodomize, sexual perversion, perversion, anal intercourse, sodomist



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