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countable and uncountable, plural lewdnesses
The quality, state or instance of being lewd; promiscuous. quotations examples
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdnesse of thy youth, in bruising thy teates by the Egyptians, for the paps of thy youth.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ezekiel 23:21
Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Pryor that will excite to lewdness.
1816 , James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, The life of Samuel Johnson […] , volume 3, T. Cadell and W. Davies, pages 210–211