Word of the Day: PORNERASTIC

ETYMOLOGY
from Greek πορνo- (porno- comb. form) + ἐραστής (lover) + –ic

EXAMPLE
“…We hear nothing of those petit creve vices, those pornerastic habits in high places, those Diamond-necklace scandals, those unmentionable gambols of the Porphyro-geniti, which are too often thrust before our eyes in fiction, and indeed in fact…”

From: The Fortnightly Review
Edited by John Morley,
Vol. VII New Series, January to June, 1870
The Romance of the Peerage

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