salacity
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salacity
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From salac(ious) + -ity, from Latin salācitās (“promoting sexual desire or lust”) (whence -acity), from salāx (“prone to leaping, provocative”), from saliō (“leap, jump, bound”).
noun salacities
- The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness. One of the males is sufficient in procreation for seuen or nine of the females, and by that means they are made more fruitful, but if you put them one male to one femal, then will the venereous salacity of the male procure abortment.
- An act that is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy); a salacious image or piece of writing. The editors of the Unitarian New Version of the New Testament, who very modestly wish to shovel all these spurcities and salacities out of the sacred text, have the impudence to tell us, in a note, that they were interpolated to lessen the odium attached to Christianity […]
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noun the state or quality of being salacious
| Español | salacidad |
|---|---|
| Português | salacidade |
| Français | salacité |
| Italiano | salacità |
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title = {salacity},
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