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temple-prostitute

temple-prostitute is the alternative form of temple prostitute.

Meaning of temple prostitute

Noun

temple prostitute (plural temple prostitutes)

  1. (historical) A prostitute who is employed at a temple.
    • As to his daughters, this Hindu will strangle one at birth, train a second for marriage, and consecrate a third to the enrichment of his religion as a temple prostitute, thinking the last act even more meritorious than the marriage and the first quite as much within his "liberty."1895, Wilbur Fisk Crafts, Practical Christian Sociology, page 260
  2. (historical) An individual, usually a woman, engaged in sexual acts as part of religious worship.

Forms of temple-prostitute

pluraltemple-prostitutes

Questions about temple-prostitute

What is temple-prostitute the alternative form of?
Temple-prostitute is the alternative form of temple prostitute.

Words near temple-prostitute in the dictionary

  1. temple vipers
  2. Temple-Baraitser syndrome
  3. temple-goer
  4. temple-goers
  5. temple-going
  6. temple-prostitute
  7. temple-prostitutes
  8. Templeborough
  9. Templecombe
  10. templed
  11. templeful

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