sexly
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sexly (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Relating to a person's (bodily) sex.
- 1601, Queen Elizabeth I, Golden Speech:
- Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weaknesse, I were not worthy to live.
- 1917, Richard Hayes McCartney, An Unclean Spirit, page 75:
- For surely in that time were those possessed
Of Demons — making men's hearts a foul nest
For other thoughts besides the sexly crime.
Perchance, tho' seven Demons in her breast
Such passions varied that gave her no rest
Like Envy, Hate and Malice, which her soul had nursed
Until her mind—desires and life accursed.
I have to think that Mary surely pure
Of sexly passion—in that way demure—
But violent otherwise in fits of spite.
References edit
- “sexly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.