scortatory
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin scortātōrius, from scortātor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
scortatory (not comparable)
- 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.