Meanings
comparative more pornerastic · superlative most pornerastic
- obsoleteLascivious; licentious.
We hear nothing of those petit crevé vices, those pornerastic habits in high places, those Diamond-necklace scandals, those unmentionable gambols of the Porphyro-geniti, which are too often thrust before our eyes in fiction.
1891, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
Origin
- Ancient Greekπόρνη“prostitute”
- Englishpornerastic
From Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”) + -ic.
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pornerastic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pornerastic
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