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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

whorely en · ADJ

Etymology

From whore + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or befitting a whore; whorelike; whorish.
    • So, since she had thrown away all her whorely jewels, she turned the umbilical cord into a necklace and wore it around her alabaster neck. 2013, Daniel Arasse, Take a Closer Look - Page 81:
    • […] the family spawned two kinds of women, the womanly woman and her negation, the whorely whore: the pure and the impure. 2013, Martha Vicinus, Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age - Page 168:

Forms

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most whorely Degree=Sup lexicographic
more whorely Degree=Cmp lexicographic