scortatory

English

Etymology

From Latin scortat-, from scortari (“to associate with prostitutes”), from scortum (“prostitute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

Adjective

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 conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.