Definition of "sext" [sext]

• Ecclesiastical The fourth of the seven canonical hours. (noun)
• Ecclesiastical The time of day set aside for this service, usually the sixth hour, or noon. (noun)

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• "The court said that threatening to press felony charges against a girl who appeared in a racy "sext" -- unless she took enrolled in a diversionary program -- was in violation of "the teen's constitutional right to be free from compelled speech and infringed on her parents 'right to direct her upbringing.""
• "It shows a student, Megan, walk out of the toilets at school doing up her blouse and smirking at the "sext" - an explicit photo taken on her mobile phone - she had just sent to her boyfriend."
• "Tiger Woods is being called a sext-happy philanderer by the National Enquirer, is getting hounded by the Florida Highway Patrol, and is facing the possibility that his wife could go to jail for domestic abuse."