fornication

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[100] but that is further militated against by the fact that the fornication was an ongoing and regional issue, not simply isolated to Sodom, and in Gn. 19 it is highly unlikely that the Sodomites knew that the men were angels.

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  1. noun Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.
  2. Word History
    The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicātiō, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch.” The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicārī, "to commit fornication,” from which is derived fornicātiō, "whoredom, fornication.” Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303.

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  • The reasons against homosexual fornication are the same ones against hetero fornication: Don't screw your life up by having sex with tons of different partners before marriage. —  Wrong Planet - Asperger / Autism News
  • Hudood refers to punishments in the Quran for adultery and fornication, as well as for consuming alcohol, making false accusations and stealing. —  IPS Inter Press Service
  • W. Countryman but that is further militated against by the fact that the fornication was an ongoing and regional issue, not simply isolated to Sodom, and in Gn. 19 it is highly unlikely that the Sodomites knew that the men were angels. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • While prohomsex polemicists attempt to render this as referring to Sodomites knowingly seeking sex with angels, Jude 1: 7 reveals that fornication was a regional issue which preceded the angelic visit, and Gn. 18: 20-22 indicates that Sodom was practicing their damnable sin prior to the arrival of Lot's angelic guests. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • This foul spirit of perversion has given rise to the spirit of fornication, adultery, rape, incest, sodomy, bestiality, homosexuality and lesbianism.
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  1. from Latin fornicatio(n-), a vaulting or arching over, from fornicatus, arched: see fornicate, a.
  2. from Middle English fornicatioun, -cioiin, from Old French fornication, French fornication= Provencal fornicatio = Spanish fornicacion = Portuguese fornicação = Italian fornicazione, from Late Latin fornicatio(n-), from fornicari, fornicate: see fornicate.
 

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/fɔrnɪˈkeɪʃən/
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