¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prostituting
1. prostitute [v] - See also: prostitute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostituting
Literary usage of Prostituting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"As a Roman, he declared, that his own life was in the emperor's hands, but that
he would never behold the son of Marcus prostituting his person and dignity. ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... which is defined by Webster ы "the act or practice of prostituting or offering
the body to an Indiscriminate Intercourse with men; common lewdness of a ..."
3. The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic by Adam Ferguson (1857)
"... the Koman peuple, and prostituting a solemn institution oí the Romans to the
vanity of a barbar- cus court, he gave much scandal and offence at Rome. ..."
4. The Congregational Magazine (1824)
"... and becoming " vain in their imaginations," are prostituting their noble gifts
to the basest and most malignant purposes—ministering to man's worst ..."
5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys from His MS. Cypher in the Pepsyian by Samuel Pepys, Richard Neville-Griffin Braybrooke (1885)
"... for it was come to that pass, that she could not longer continue at Court
without prostituting herself to the King,1 whom she had so long kept off, ..."
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