Complete Definition of "scortatory"

English
Etymology
From Latin scortat-, from scortari �associate with prostitutes�, from scortum �prostitute�.

Pronunciation
IPA: /sk�:'teɪt�ri/

Adjective
scortatory

  1. pertaining to scortation; lewd, fornicatory

#:*1922: Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures. � James Joyce, Ulysses

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