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Origin:
before 900; Middle English leud, lewed, Old English lǣwede lay, unlearned
before 900; Middle English leud, lewed, Old English lǣwede lay, unlearned
Related forms
lewd·ly, adverb
lewd·ness, noun
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Lewdness
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Word Origin & History
lewd
O.E. læwede "nonclerical," of uncertain origin but probably ult. from V.L. *laigo-, from L. laicus (see lay (adj.)). Sense of "unlettered, uneducated" (early 13c.) descended to "coarse, vile, lustful" by late 14c.
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Lewdness definition
(Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the modern sense of the word. The word "lewd" is from the Saxon, and means properly "ignorant," "unlearned," and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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