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pornographico-devotional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /pɔɹnəˌɡɹæfɪkoʊdɪˈvoʊʃənəl/ (General-American)
  • /pɔːnəˌɡɹæfɪkəʊdɪˈvəʊʃənəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From pornographic + -o- + devotional.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of writings, rare) Both pornographic and devotional.
    • This Egyptiac conception of a single universal godhead manifesting itself under a host of local names was not only extended from Re of Heliopolis to Amon-Re of Thebes. In an age when the Egyptiac Civilization itself was on the eve of extinction we find an Egyptiac Isis who by this time had conquered a spiritual empire for herself in an alien Hellenic World laying claim to the same Protean universality in her epiphany to the hero of Apuleius’s pornographico-devotional romance. 1939, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, “A Study of History”, in The Disintegrations of Civilizations: Part One, 2nd edition, volume V, Oxford University Press, published 1961, page 531: