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词汇 fornicate
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Definition of fornicate in English:

fornicate

verb ˈfɔːnɪkeɪtˈfɔrnəˌkeɪt
[no object]humorous, formal
  • Have sexual intercourse with someone one is not married to.

    〈正式或幽默〉私通;通奸

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If our patients had no alternative but to fornicate, perhaps it would be a case of passing the buck.
    • He thus has the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued.
    • They traveled and probably fornicated in cars made by giant multinational corporations.
    • The final chorus in this production reverses the emotional polarities of the whole opera: singing about their new-won freedom, the humans fight, flirt and fornicate.
    • A man of irreproachable personal piety who nevertheless has no objection to his neighbors’ boozing on the Sabbath or fornicating in haylofts is not a Puritan.

Derivatives

  • fornicator

  • noun ˈfɔːnɪkeɪtəˈfɔrnəˌkeɪdər
    humorous, formal
    • And if they are, how would you punish the fornicator or adulterer?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They play in a band and sing songs; they pass out leaflets; and they scold the fornicators who live next door.
      • And yet not one member of the House or Senate would consider supporting a constitutional amendment to discriminate against fornicators or adulterers.
      • By the late eighteenth century, New England law enforcers arrested few fornicators or adulterers, though premarital and extramarital sex had hardly disappeared.
      • Will we change the Constitution to restrict the rights of fornicators, adulterers or divorcees in the interest of protecting the ‘sanctity’ of marriage?

Origin

Middle English (as fornication): from ecclesiastical Latin fornicat- 'arched', from fornicari, from Latin fornix, fornic- 'vaulted chamber', later 'brothel'.

Definition of fornicate in US English:

fornicate

verbˈfôrnəˌkātˈfɔrnəˌkeɪt
[no object]formal, humorous
  • (of two people not married to each other) have sexual intercourse.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The final chorus in this production reverses the emotional polarities of the whole opera: singing about their new-won freedom, the humans fight, flirt and fornicate.
    • He thus has the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued.
    • They traveled and probably fornicated in cars made by giant multinational corporations.
    • A man of irreproachable personal piety who nevertheless has no objection to his neighbors’ boozing on the Sabbath or fornicating in haylofts is not a Puritan.
    • If our patients had no alternative but to fornicate, perhaps it would be a case of passing the buck.

Origin

Middle English (as fornication): from ecclesiastical Latin fornicat- ‘arched’, from fornicari, from Latin fornix, fornic- ‘vaulted chamber’, later ‘brothel’.

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