whoremongery

Noun

whoremongery (usually uncountable, plural whoremongeries)

1. (usually) Sexual relations by or with a prostitute.
   • Fornication is the loose and illegal sexual relationship between unmarried persons, and whoremongery the same conduct with a professional prostitute; both are often included in the biblical word "whoring."1947, Reinhold Friedrich Kies, "What is Wrong with the World Today?": Evils Exposed and the Remedy
   • He then addresses the servants of 'three usurers', who provide the occasion for his extended comparison of usury with whoremongery (2.2.89–105). The same association of usury with prostitution arises in the bawd Pompey's florid lament on the legal closure of the brothels of Vienna:2004, B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol, Shakespeare's Legal Language, →ISBN, page 391
2. (broadly, usually) The act of engaging in illicit sexual relations.
   • In ch. xxi. 8 whoremongery is considered under the aspect of an injury done to a neighbour.1852, Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg, The Revelation of St John: Expounded for Those who Search the Scriptures
   • Hence the sanctification of the sexual appetite can be regarded as only a single purpose, for which there is not even a point of resemblance in the parallel with the church and her Head, not as the principle task of Christian family morals (Schenkel), as if marriage were ordained as a safeguard...1870, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, page 206