Lexicographical Neighbors of Lewdnesses
Literary usage of Lewdnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... not often hear of this or that youw heir ? are not his riches and his lewdnesses
talked of together ? Stett. 6. When this and that respect a former ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"That although hee were assured, that he were to be hanged, and that the Fire were
kindled to burne him, yet hee would reprehend his vices and lewdnesses, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"That although hee were assured, that he were to be hanged, and that the Fire were
kindled to burne him, yet hee would reprehend his vices and lewdnesses, ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"That although hee were assured, that he were to be hanged, and that the Fire were
kindled to burne him, yet hee would reprehend his vices and lewdnesses, ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John J. Malham (1810)
"And by their ill example, a door is set wide open, to let in, among the vulgar,
all the lewdnesses und immoralities m the world. Therefore you should chuse ..."
6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1890)
"... a shameful subjection of her senses, she begins the reparation of these criminal
lewdnesses, by the humiliation and disgust of these lowly services. ..."
7. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1905)
"... and above measure opposed to the gospel, since that was above measure opposed
to their vices, cruelties, lewdnesses, superstitions, and idolatries. ..."
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