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Synonyms for pederasty
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ped-uh-ras-tee, pee-duh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd əˌræs ti, ˈpi də- |
Top 10 synonyms for pederasty
- brutishness
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- fleshliness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- libidinousness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- raunchiness
- ribaldry
- ruttishness
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- unchastity
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
Définition of pederasty
Origin :- "sodomy of a man with a boy," c.1600, from French pédérastie or directly from Modern Latin pæderastia, from Greek paiderastia "love of boys," from paiderastes "pederast, lover of boys," from pais (genitive paidos) "child, boy" (see pedo-) + erastes "lover," from erasthai "to love" (see Eros).
- As in lewdness : noun indecency
- We often meet with pederasty without a trace of inversion of the sexual appetite.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- I asked him what he thought of the charge of pederasty brought against the bard.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- The early Franciscan missionaries to California found the men who were used for pederasty dressed as women.
- Extract from : « History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present » by Peter Charles Remondino
- The relations that from eunuchism led to pederasty are very easy of explanation.
- Extract from : « History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present » by Peter Charles Remondino
- Hence the fear of over-population caused Aristotle to recommend to the men abstinence from their wives, and pederasty, instead.
- Extract from : « Woman under socialism » by August Bebel
- As well be imagined, pederasty has a fine field in this town, where the passions are kept under lock and key.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- Pederasty, ped′e-rast-i, n. unnatural commerce of males with males, esp.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
- Las Casas tells us that pederasty was tolerated because they believed that their gods practiced it.
- Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- It is very doubtful whether he was a Huguenot, and whenever in his works he refers to pederasty it is with strong disapproval.
- Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis
- It is in vain that a modern writer seeks to justify Sextus Empiricus and pederasty.
- Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Antonyms for pederasty
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