Definition of "whoredoms" []

• Plural form of whoredom. (noun)

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• "They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord."
• "The violation of the first two commandments of the first table by idolatry, which is here called her whoredoms with her lovers (so she called them, Hos.ii. 12, because she loved them as if they had been indeed her benefactors), that is, with all the idols of her abominations, the abominable idols which she served and worshipped."
• "Because of the multitude of the whoredoms -- This assigns the reason for Nineveh's destruction. of the well-favoured harlot -- As Assyria was not a worshipper of the true God, "whoredoms" cannot mean, as in the case of Israel, apostasy to the worship of false gods; but, her harlot-like artifices whereby she allured neighboring states so as to subject them to herself."