Definition of "paederastic" []

• Alternative spelling of pederastic. (adjective)

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• "And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte."
• "Wilde described his sexual identity as Socratic inspired by Greek paederastic tradition."
• "Europe has improved relations between men and women, neither paederastic acts nor homosexual beings can now exist."