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pæderasty

pæderasty is the obsolete spelling of pederasty.

Meaning of pederasty

Noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)

  1. (US, usually) Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.
    • […] aber die Entwürdigung der Frauen rächte sich an den Männern und entwürdigte auch sie, bis sie versanken in die Widerwärtigkeit der Knabenliebe und ihre Götter entwürdigten wie sich selbst durch den Mythus von Ganymed.1962 [1891, 1884], Friedrich Engels, “II. Die Familie”, in Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats (Marx-Engels-Werke; 21), Dietz Verlag Berlin, page 67; English translation in...
    Antonyms:
    korephilia
  2. (US, archaic, usually) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.

Questions about pæderasty

What is pæderasty the obsolete spelling of?
Pæderasty is the obsolete spelling of pederasty.

Words near pæderasty in the dictionary

  1. pædantry
  2. pædants
  3. pæderast
  4. pæderastic
  5. pæderasts
  6. pæderasty
  7. pædeutics
  8. pædiatric
  9. pædiatrician
  10. pædiatricians
  11. pædiatrics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pæderasty (page history and authors); pederasty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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