Antonyms for lewdness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lood

Phonetic Transcription : lud

Definition of lewdness

Origin : Old English læwede "nonclerical," of uncertain origin but probably ultimately from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Latin laicus (see lay (adj.)). Sense of "unlettered, uneducated" (early 13c.) descended to "coarse, vile, lustful" by late 14c. Related: Lewdly; lewdness.

noun indecency

Example sentences :

They are not the fruits of love but of a sexual union based on idleness and lewdness.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

Ye've followed him so long in lewdness that now yell follow him in conversion!
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

Messalina, wife to the emperor Claudius, infamous for her lewdness.
Extract from : « Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals » by John Dryden

And these games are reckoned devout in proportion to their lewdness.
Extract from : « The City of God, Volume I » by Aurelius Augustine

By the French and Anglo-Saxon laws, lewdness was thus punished.
Extract from : « La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages » by Jules Michelet

Lambe was notorious for the lewdness of his life and his evil habits.
Extract from : « Witch, Warlock, and Magician » by William Henry Davenport Adams

He should not give ear to a woman's voice, for the voice of a woman is lewdness.
Extract from : « Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala » by Various

That never taught him lewdness, nor the love of wine, nor the wish to reap where he had not sowed.
Extract from : « Essays » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It cannot be denied, says he, that the christians of Europe are subject to two great vices, drunkenness and lewdness.
Extract from : « Ebrietatis Encomium » by Boniface Oinophilus

Lewdness is as contagious as typhus fever, and vice spreads like oil upon the water.
Extract from : « The Story of Malta » by Maturin M. Ballou

Synonyms for lewdness

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