- lewdness
- noun see lewd
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
lewdness
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lewdness — index debauchery, obscenity, perversion, pornography, vice Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
lewdness — The unlawful indulgence of lust; sexual impurity; gross indecency with respect to the sexual relation. State v Rayburn, 170 Iowa 514, 153 NW 59. The common law offense of lewdness means open and public indecency, and in order to amount to an… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Lewdness — (Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the modern sense of the word. The word lewd is from the Saxon, and means properly ignorant, unlearned, and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5) … Easton's Bible Dictionary
lewdness — Gross and wanton indecency in sexual relations so notorious as to tend to corrupt community s morals. Hensley v. City of Norfolk, 218 N.E.2d 735, 740, 216 Va. 369. Licentiousness; that form of immorality which has relation to sexual impurity.… … Black's law dictionary
lewdness — Gross and wanton indecency in sexual relations so notorious as to tend to corrupt community s morals. Hensley v. City of Norfolk, 218 N.E.2d 735, 740, 216 Va. 369. Licentiousness; that form of immorality which has relation to sexual impurity.… … Black's law dictionary
lewdness — lewd ► ADJECTIVE ▪ crude and offensive in a sexual way. DERIVATIVES lewdly adverb lewdness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «belonging to the laity», later «belonging to the common people, vulgar»: from Old English … English terms dictionary
Lewdness — Lewd Lewd (l[=u]d), a. [Compar. {Lewder} ( [ e]r); superl. {Lewdest}.] [{OE}. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l[=ae]wed laical, belonging to the laity.] 1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] For if a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lewdness — See lewdly. * * * … Universalium
lewdness — noun The property of being lewd … Wiktionary
lewdness — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisianism, X rated movie, animality, bawdiness, bawdry, blue movie, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature, eroticism, eroticomania, erotographomania,… … Moby Thesaurus
