pæderast

noun

Dated spelling of pederast.

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Meanings

nounpæderast (plural pæderasts)

plural pæderasts

  1. Dated spelling of pederast.

    In this form also sexual perversions predominate; signs are made by persons in a crowd that he is a pæderast, an onanist, that he is impotent.

    1900, Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases, D. Appleton and Company, page 272
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pæderast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/p%C3%A6derast

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“pæderast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/p%C3%A6derast. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pæderast,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/p%C3%A6derast.

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