How To Use whoredom In A Sentence
- I have been informed that polygamical love and the love of the sex, also the lust of deflowering and the lust of variety, have induced the minds (_animos_) of some to desire repeated marriages; and that the minds of some have also been induced thereto by a fear of the law and of the loss of reputation, in case they commit whoredom: besides several other circumstances which promote external inclinations to matrimony. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
- For the Old Testament prophet as well as the Puritan merchant, the real fear was that God would punish the entire community for spiritual as much as for literal whoredom.
- He accuses his wife of whoredom, discounts her denials, and insultingly gives Emilia money as he leaves.
- God by his prophets warned them against making these dangerous leagues with foreigners (v. 43): Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, that from the first was fond of leagues with the heathen, of matching with their families (Judg.iii. 6), and afterwards of making alliances with their kingdoms, and, though often disappointed therein, would never be dissuaded from it (this was the adultery she was old in), I said, Will they now commit whoredoms with her and she with them? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- And when Jesus answered, that it is not lawful to put away a wife and to marry another, except on account of whoredom, they replied that nevertheless Moses commanded to give a bill of divorce and to put her away; and the disciples said, If the case of a man with his wife be so it is not expedient to marry_, "xix. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
- And unlike the overt whoredom of television, journalists suffer the dangers of keeping our whorish side locked in the closet.
- The prominent association of religion and whoredom in the period could have been more rigorously examined in relation to Henrietta Maria.
- Hendrickje probably approved of his financial prudence, even when she was arraigned for whoredom by the Amsterdam religious police.
