lechery
pronunciation
How to pronounce lechery in British English:
UK ['letʃərɪ]
How to pronounce lechery in American English:
US [ˈlɛtʃəri]
-
- Noun:
- unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
Word Origin
- lechery (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old French lecherie "impertinence, deceit," from lecheor (see lecher). The priests had excellent cause to forbid us lechery: this injunction, by reserving to them acquaintance with and absolution for these private sins, gave them an incredible ascendancy over women, and opened up to them a career of lubricity whose scope knew no limits. [Marquis de Sade, "Philosophy in the Bedroom"]
Example
- 1. Lechery and abstinence - study on shanghai style novel .
- 2. When they are idle , they indulgethemselves into comfort , lechery , crapulence and gluttony .
- 3. Comedians with larger , less well-informed audiences , such as jay leno , have to keep their political quips short and focused on figures with flaws everyone knows-like bill clinton 's lechery or george bush 's grammatical problems .
- 4. I did get to happy recently when re-reading the novel one fat englishman by kingsley amis , but that was about lechery , gluttony and sloth so it didn 't really count .