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scortatory

/skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

scortatory adjective: pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.

Adjective

scortatory (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.
    • Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 193

Origin of scortatory

Borrowed from Latin scortātōrius, from scortātor.

Questions about scortatory

What does scortatory mean?
Scortatory means pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.
What part of speech is scortatory?
Scortatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce scortatory?
Scortatory is pronounced /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/.

Words near scortatory in the dictionary

  1. Scorsese
  2. Scorsesean
  3. scorsing
  4. scortation
  5. scortations
  6. scortatory
  7. Scorton
  8. scorza
  9. scorzalite
  10. Scorziello
  11. Scorziellos

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