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Definition of Fornicating
1. fornicate [v] - See also: fornicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fornicating
formyltransferase formyltransferases forn fornacite forncast forne fornenst fornent fornical fornices | fornigate |
Literary usage of Fornicating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"but lawful for you is all besides this, for you to seek them with your wealth,
marrying them and not fornicating; but such of them as ye have enjoyed, ..."
2. The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1898)
"... fornicating clergy and pseudo-sacerdotes, unless indeed he here has in mind
the so-called Manichean teachers, who do not seem to have been numerous. ..."
3. Proofs of the Interpolation of the Vowel-letters in the Text of the Hebrew by Charles William Wall (1857)
"His rulers [literally, his shields] in fornicating have fornicated, in loving have
... fornicating they have fornicated; they have loved infamy for its very ..."
4. The Qur'ān by Edward Henry Palmer (1880)
"Ye come one from the other ; then marry them with the permission of their people,
and give them their hire in reason, they being chaste and not fornicating, ..."
5. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"but lawful for you is all besides this, for you to seek them with your wealth,
marrying them and not fornicating; but such of them as ye have enjoyed, ..."