crime against nature

noun

Law. sodomy.
any act considered to be against the laws or designs of nature or one's religious teachings.

First recorded in 1920–25

I do not go too far, when I call it the Crime against Nature, from which the soul recoils, and which language refuses to describe.

It is not a crime against nature; nor are any of these which men commit in consequence of their necessities.

Derelictio communis utilitatis contra naturam—The 50 abandonment of what is for the common good is a crime against nature.

His trade can never be improved or purified, being itself a crime against Nature.

To ignore a difference inherent in nature is a crime against nature and is punished accordingly by nature.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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