lenocinate

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verb

To entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).

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Meanings

verblenocinate (third-person singular simple present lenocinates, present participle lenocinating, simple past and past participle lenocinated)

present singular third person lenocinates · participle present lenocinating · participle past lenocinated · past lenocinated

  1. obsoleterareTo entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).

    Rolling eyes, wandering looks, out-stretched necks, fleering smiles, and lenocinating glances, disparage the most modest […]

    1844, Samuel Annesley, The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate … Being Divers Sermons, Preached A.D. 1659-1689 by Several Ministers, page 508
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    Cardinall Bellarmyne he abuseth more grosly, for he calleth him, a Cardinal parasite, the lenocinating pander of the whore of Babylon, […]

    1612, Robert Persons, A discussion of the Answere of M. William Barlow

Origin

See lenocinant.

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lenocinate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lenocinate

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lenocinate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lenocinate.

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