scortatory

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

Adjective

scortatory (not comparable)

Pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483, page 193:
  Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.

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