Whore
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A woman who practices unlawful commerce with men, particularly one that does so for hire; a prostitute. While a woman may acquire that character without being generally accessible to men, as where she is the mistress of one man, yet the term implies the idea that the offenses against chastity on the part of the person to whom it is applied are public and notorious, and it is not proper to apply it to a woman who has yielded only to her affianced. 43 Iowa 183.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Prostitute; Slander, 1.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
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.