Definitions for harlotry

harlotry har·lot·ry

Spelling: [hahr-luh-tree]
IPA: /ˈhɑr lə tri/

Harlotry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in harlotry (ahlorrty).

Definitions for harlotry

noun

  1. prostitution.

Origin of harlotry

First recorded in 1275-1325, harlotry is from the Middle English word harlotrie. See harlot, -ry

Examples for harlotry

Concubinage, slave women, harlotry, and all other forms but the prescribed one have been put under taboo.

Protect the nobility and gentry in their harlotry, and let holiness be measured by the fineness of the garments.

To them harlotry is in all its blasting, withering phases, a familiar story before they have reached the age of ten years.

harlotry, wine and new wine take away the heart of My people.

His companions were chosen from the harlotry and knavery of the civilised world.

As to his "harlotry," he clearly could not be responsible for the metamorphoses of his soul after death.

I call it corruption of a young gentleman like him, and harlotry, sir, I call it.

Maeterlinck's heroine, on the other hand, sinks lower than harlotry: when her body is beyond buying she sells her hand.

For a spirit of harlotry hath led them astray, and they have played the harlot from their God.

She sought them out and courted them all to increase her harlotry.

Word Value for harlotry
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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