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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sodomite
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Imaged in such terms, the sodomite indeed became the supreme instance of the demonized other.
▪ That's the rumour which will begin to circulate: a poisoner as well as a sodomite.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sodomite

Sodomite \Sod"om*ite\, n.

  1. An inhabitant of Sodom.

  2. One guilty of sodomy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sodomite

late 14c., from Old French Sodomite "inhabitant of Sodom; sodomite," also a general term of abuse, or directly from Late Latin Sodomita, from Greek Sodomites "inhabitant of Sodom" (see Sodom, also sodomy). Related: Sodomitical. Old English had adjective sodomitisc. The King James Bible (1611) has fem. form sodomitesse in a marginal note to "whore" in Deut. xxiii:17.

Wiktionary
sodomite

n. 1 One who practices sodomy; a sodomist. 2 (context derogatory English) A female or male homosexual.

WordNet
sodomite

n. someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) [syn: sodomist, sod, bugger]

Wikipedia
Sodomite

Sodomite may refer to:

  • A person who practices sodomy
  • A resident of Sodom
  • Sodomites (film), a short film by Gaspar Noé

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Main Entry: sod·om·ite Pronunciation: \-ˌmīt\ Function: noun Date: 14th century

Usage examples of "sodomite".

Julius was ageless and ancient, child and crone, a cruel sodomite and a tender saint.

Son of a whore, pot of excrement, liar, thief, hypocrite trimmer and counterfeiter, adulterer, glutton, coward, voluptuary, sodomite, usurer, simoniac, necromancer, sower of discord, cheat!

Whereas a certain foreign prince, one Benedict XXII, Bishop of New Rome, presuming to assert an authority which is not rightly his over the clergy of this nation, has dared to attempt, first, to place the Texarkanan Church under a sentence of interdict, and, later, to suspend this sentence, thereby creating great confusion and spiritual neglect among all the faithful, We, the only legitimate ruler over the Church in this realm, acting in concord with a council of bishops and clergy, hereby declare to Our loyal people that the aforesaid prince and bishop, Benedict XXII, is a heretic, simoniac, murderer, sodomite, and atheist, unworthy of any recognition by Holy Church in lands of Our kingdom, empire, or protectorate.

I do not think Queen Vela would press her sodomite son into marriage, were there any other branches of the royal bloodline capable of producing a future heir to the kingdom.

The eyes of every viewer panicked by retrovirus homophobic hysteria would be glued to the set, ready to see if the Democrats would endorse the pollution of their bodily fluids by lurking sodomites and junkies drooling contamination from every orifice.

He passes this on, and he and Annie's group set off at a fast pace, cutting through some backstreets to where a dozen heathen road workers are awaiting them, resting casually on their picks and shovels at a junction, and just as casually eyeing up a small but militant fundamentalist congregation massed in a side street with placards denouncing heathens, sodomites, and Dawsonites.

During the reign of Queen Anne, the city marshal of London, a man named Charles Hitchin, was a notorious transvestite and sodomite who acted as a receiver of stolen goods and blackmailed thieves for sexual favours.

Punk rock, the inevitable swastika, telephone numbers promising sodomites paradise.