pornographico-devotional
English edit
Etymology edit
pornographic + -o- + devotional
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɔːnəˌɡɹæfɪkəʊdɪˈvəʊʃənəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɔɹnəˌɡɹæfɪkoʊdɪˈvoʊʃənəl/
- Rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Adjective edit
pornographico-devotional (not comparable)
- (of writings, rare) Both pornographic and devotional.
- 1939, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, “A Study of History”, in The Disintegrations of Civilizations: Part One[1], 2nd edition, volume V, Oxford University Press, published 1961, page 531:
- This Egyptiac conception of a single universal godhead manifesting itself under a host of local names was not only extended from Re of Heliopolis to Amon-Re of Thebes. In an age when the Egyptiac Civilization itself was on the eve of extinction we find an Egyptiac Isis who by this time had conquered a spiritual empire for herself in an alien Hellenic World laying claim to the same Protean universality in her epiphany to the hero of Apuleius’s pornographico-devotional romance.
Translations edit
both pornographic and devotional
References edit
- “pornographico-, comb. form” listed as a subentry of “pornographic, a.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)
- “pornographico-devotional, adj.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed., December 2006)