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English
Etymology
The first words of the Athanasian Creed are, in Latin, "Quicunque vult (salvus esse...)", "whoever wants to (be saved...)".
Noun
Athanasian wench (plural Athanasian wenches)
- (archaic, slang) A sexually promiscuous or loose woman, willing to have sexual intercourse with anybody.
- ca 1980, Peter Klappert, Satan Who Is Most Noisy When He Whispers, published in Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty. New York: Knopf in 1984 →ISBN:
- Of course I couldn't stop myself
- — for I was an Athanasian wench
- who said Quicunque vult and Amen to everything —
- stop myself from thinking
- What an ugly cock this Fridolin
- must have, some primitive weapon, an iguana-headed
- crude killing thing, a bulldog's kisser
- at the end of a pick handle.
1901, Justin Huntly McCarthy, If I were king, page 35:Villon gently cooled her impatience. "Hush, hush, my girl! There are many kinds of love, as you ought to know well enough. I am a rogue and a vagabond, no less, and so sometimes I love you and other such Athanasian wenches; Isabeau there and Jehanneton."
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