scortatory

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin scortātōrius, from scortātor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

Adjective

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scortatory (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 193:
      Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.