scortation

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/skɔːˈteɪʃən/

Definition of scortation

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)lewdness, fornication
    “Heirof I suppois it be plane, that the precept to absteane from blude, gevin be the Apostill, was temporall and not perpetuall; for uthirwayis the Halie Gaist, speiking oftin of the libertie of the Gentillis, wald have restraynit and exceptit it, as he hath done scortatioun, whilk in the same degree is expressit, and licentious and filthie communicatioun, whilk the Gentillis estemeit na or small synnis.”
    “That it is a ſcortation [translating scortatio] more oppoſite to conjugial love than the common ſcortation, which is called ſimple adultery; and that it is a deprivation of every faculty and inclination to conjugial life, which is implanted in chriſtians from nativity, may be evinced by arguments which will have great weight with the reaſon of a wiſe man.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scortātiō, from scortārī.

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