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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scortātiō, from scortārī.
Pronunciation
Noun
scortation (countable and uncountable, plural scortations)
- (obsolete) lewdness, fornication
1556, John Knox, Answers to Some Questions Concerning Baptism, etc.:Heirof I suppois it be plane, that the precept to absteane from blude, gevin be the Apostill, was temporall and not perpetuall; for uthirwayis the Halie Gaist, speiking oftin of the libertie of the Gentillis, wald have restraynit and exceptit it, as he hath done scortatioun, whilk in the same degree is expressit, and licentious and filthie communicatioun, whilk the Gentillis estemeit na or small synnis.
1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of Concubinage”, in The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: Translated from the Latin , London: Printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh, , →OCLC, paragraph 466, page 431:That it is a ſcortation [translating scortatio] more oppoſite to conjugial love than the common ſcortation, which is called ſimple adultery; and that it is a deprivation of every faculty and inclination to conjugial life, which is implanted in chriſtians from nativity, may be evinced by arguments which will have great weight with the reaſon of a wiſe man.
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