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pornotropes

pornotropes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pornotrope.

pornotropes is the plural of pornotrope.

Meaning of pornotrope

Verb

pornotrope (third-person singular simple present pornotropes, present participle pornotroping, simple past and past participle pornotroped)

  1. To transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.
    • If minstrelsy had grotesquely pornotroped the sexual availability of "light-skinned" women and "mulatta coquettes" by burdening them with operating as the objects of erotic pursuit, then Menken's breeches (counter)act in Three Fast Women must be considered as another paradoxical parody on her part.2006, Daphne Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, →ISBN, page 203

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Questions about pornotropes

What is pornotropes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pornotropes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pornotrope.

Words near pornotropes in the dictionary

  1. pornotopian
  2. pornotopias
  3. pornotopic
  4. pornotrope
  5. pornotroped
  6. pornotropes
  7. pornotroping
  8. pornoviolence
  9. porns
  10. pornscape
  11. pornscapes

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