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temple prostitutes

temple prostitutes is the plural 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.

Questions about temple prostitutes

What is temple prostitutes the plural of?
Temple prostitutes is the plural of temple prostitute.

Words near temple prostitutes in the dictionary

  1. Temple of Heaven
  2. temple of immensity
  3. temple orange
  4. temple oranges
  5. temple prostitute
  6. temple prostitutes
  7. temple prostitution
  8. temple ring
  9. temple rings
  10. Temple Sowerby
  11. temple title

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