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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lech-uh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛtʃ ə ri

Définition of lechery

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old French lecherie "impertinence, deceit," from lecheor (see lecher).
  • The priests had excellent cause to forbid us lechery: this injunction, by reserving to them acquaintance with and absolution for these private sins, gave them an incredible ascendancy over women, and opened up to them a career of lubricity whose scope knew no limits. [Marquis de Sade, "Philosophy in the Bedroom"]
  • noun lewdness
Example sentences :
  • There are worse faults to be laid to his account than lechery and extravagance.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Lechery and gambling are two of his vices, and the third is drinking.
  • Extract from : « A History of Caricature and Grotesque » by Thomas Wright
  • The seventh is goat-drunk, when in his drunkenness he hath no mind but on lechery.
  • Extract from : « Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England » by Richard Valpy French
  • Less force to labour, and more to lechery; that's the sum of it.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Vikings » by John Bowling
  • For that it brent it was a sign of lechery, the which was that time much used.
  • Extract from : « Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) » by Thomas Malory
  • He vents his lechery at the mouth, as some fishes are said to engender.
  • Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
  • The frame of his bed is of fine sapphires blended with gold, to make him sleep well, and to refrain him from lechery.
  • Extract from : « Early Travels in Palestine » by Arculf et al.
  • Wine and lechery did what human enemies could not and the pack of wolves rotted away like a flock of diseased sheep.
  • Extract from : « The Economic Functions of Vice » by John McElroy
  • Well, I have two of my healths to drink yet—lechery and drunkenness, which even shall go together.
  • Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15) » by W. Carew Hazlitt
  • Younghusband, who perhaps got his information at the bar of the Manila Club, describes them as “monsters of lechery.”
  • Extract from : « The Inhabitants of the Philippines » by Frederic H. Sawyer

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