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noun

Prostitute n.

A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. "No hireling she, no prostitute to praise."

verb

Prostitute v. t. (past & past part. prostituted; pres. part. prostituting)

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter."

To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.

adjective

Prostitute adj. Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes. "Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread."

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Etymology of 'Prostitute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prostitute" Quotes from Famous Books

... supernatural force, man pays it religious honour, and comes to identify its manifestations as an expression of the supernatural and also as an act of worship towards it. In India the practice existed, when most temples had their 'bayaderes.' In ancient Chaldea every woman was compelled to prostitute herself once in her life in the temple of the goddess Mylitta—the Chaldean Venus. This custom existed elsewhere, and by it the woman was compelled to remain within the temple enclosures until some man chose her, from whom she received a piece of money. The money, of course, ...

— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen

... "Did the world ever give anything to me? And what would they do with this? They would prostitute it to their own selfish ends; it would be just one more means to conquer and kill; and the capitalists would have it in their own dirty hands so that new lines of transportation beyond anything they dared dream would be theirs ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... the contrary, I was always on the lookout for boys who would join with me in mutual masturbation. Such were my sexual habits, until as a boy of thirteen I for the first time had complete sexual intercourse with a woman, a prostitute. Thenceforward, for a time, I had intercourse at intervals of from four to six weeks, continuing in the meanwhile daily masturbation. Subsequently I sought and found opportunities for intercourse with women, married and unmarried, about once a week, for money. These almost daily venereal ...

— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... never the faintest exaggeration or burlesque. These brigands and cut-throats, pimps and pickpurses are set before us without bravado, without the genteel glaze of the timid painter, without an attempt to call a prostitute a cocotte. Indeed, persons are called by their true names in these hasty sketches of Lautrec's, and so clearly sounded are the names that sometimes you are compelled to close your ears and eyes. His models, ...

— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... in the slavery question on both sides of the Atlantic. We had been disgraced by two Florida wars, caused by the unconstitutional espousal of slavery by the General Government. President Van Buren had dishonored his administration and defied the moral sense of the civilized world by his efforts to prostitute our foreign policy to the service of slavery and the slave trade. In February, 1839, Henry Clay had made his famous speech on "Abolitionism," and thus recognized the bearing of the slavery question upon the presidential election of the following year. The ...

— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian

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