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sodomitries

sodomitries is the plural of sodomitry.

Meaning of sodomitry

Noun

sodomitry (countable and uncountable, plural sodomitries)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of sodomy.
    • Peter Lays bastard son to Pope Paule the third, was one that practised many horrible villanies, robberies, murders, adulteries, incest, and Sodomitries, thinking that because his father was Pope therefore no wickednesse was vnlawfull for him to commit.1597, Jean de Chassanion, translated by Thomas Beard, The theatre of Gods iudgements: or, a collection of histories out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and prophane authours concerning the admirable...
    Synonyms:
    sodomy

Questions about sodomitries

What is sodomitries the plural of?
Sodomitries is the plural of sodomitry.

Words near sodomitries in the dictionary

  1. sodomitess
  2. sodomitesses
  3. sodomitic
  4. sodomitical
  5. sodomitically
  6. sodomitries
  7. sodomitry
  8. sodomization
  9. sodomizations
  10. sodomize
  11. sodomized

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