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sod·om·ist

, sodomite (sod'ŏ-mist, -mīt),
One who practices sodomy.
[G. sodomitēs, an inhabitant of the city of Sodom, said in the Bible to have been destroyed by fire because of the wickedness of its people]
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sod·om·ist

, sodomite (sod'ŏ-mist, -mīt)
One who practices sodomy.
[G. sodomitēs, an inhabitant of the city of Sodom, described in the Bible to have been destroyed by fire because of the wickedness of its people]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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The offer is made as, together with his angelic guests, Lot finds himself besieged in his own house by a mob of angry Sodomites, eager to practise their wicked ways with the city's new visitors.
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For example, he suggests that it is Henry who authorizes the killing of the boys who guard the luggage during the battle at Agincourt because one of those boys is Falstaff's companion from Eastcheap, who could possibly identify him as a sodomite. To his credit, Corum does seem to be teasing out the implications of a position articulated several years ago by Gregory Bredbeck, who argued that Bray's description of the sodomite as existing outside the social order was not perfectly inscriptive and left space for what he wanted to call a "sodomitical subjunctivity." Corum's reading of Henry V may provide additional evidence for that position.
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These show the gradual, to many people almost imperceptible, path toward the equality of the sodomite lifestyle and same-sex "marriage with the lifestyle of a traditional family of one man and one woman.
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