The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whoredom \Whore"dom\, n. [OE. hordom; cf. Icel. h?rd?mr.]
The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.
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(Script.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry.
O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God.
--Hos. v. 3, 4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., "practice of sexual immorality," probably from Old Norse hordomr "adultery," from Proto-Germanic *horaz (see whore (n.)) + Old Norse -domr "condition " (see -dom).
Wiktionary
n. The state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication. (from 12th c.)
WordNet
n. offering sexual intercourse for pay [syn: prostitution, harlotry]
Usage examples of "whoredom".
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
He was thrown into a life of controversy, and thus into all the terrible temptations--worse than the temptations to whoredom or wine--that accompany a life of controversy.
The chroniclers do not often pause in their narrations to dwell on the moral aspects of the times, but Meyer, in his annals of Flanders, under date of 1379, tells us that it would be impossible to describe the prevalence everywhere of perjuries, blasphemies, adulteries, hatreds, quarrels, brawls, murder, rapine, thievery, robbery, gambling, whoredom debauchery, avarice, oppression of the poor, rape, drunkenness: and similar vices, and he illustrates his statement with the fact that in the territory of Ghent, within the space of ten months, there occurred no less than fourteen hundred murders committed in the bagnios, brothels, gambling-houses, taverns, and other similar places.
Of their whoredoms I will not speak anything at all, more than of their swearing.
And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Ezekiel, sixteen, was a riot of whoredoms and abominations, and I shivered to think how terrible they must be: but I did not know what they were, even in the plainest sense of the words.