different between whoredom vs lascivious

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??d?m/

Noun

whoredom (usually uncountable, plural whoredoms)

1. The state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication. [from 12th c.]

   Synonym: harlotry

   • 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).

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin lasc?vi?sus, from lasc?via (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??s?v??s/

Adjective

lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)

1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

   • Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• wanton, lewd, lustful

Related terms

Derived terms

• lasciviously
• lasciviousness

Translations

See also

• lecherous

Anagrams

• laviscious