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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

A whore is a woman who practices unlawful commerce with men, particularly one who does so for hire; a harlot; a concubine; a prostitute. A woman who yields only to the solicitations of her affianced ought not, in common parlance, to be styled a whore.

Sheehey v. Cokley, 43 Iowa, 183.

Any single act of sexual intercourse between a married female and a male person not her husband, or between an unmarried female and a male person, is whoredom.

Eodebaugh v. Ho Uingsworth, 6 Ind. 339.