arch. [f. WHORE sb. + MONGER 2. Now familiar mainly from its occurrence in the English Bible.] One who has dealings with whores; one who practises whoredom; a fornicator, lecher.
1526. Tindale, Eph. v. 5. No whormonger, other vnclene person,… hath any inheritaunce in the kyngdom of Christ.
1528. Roy, Rede me (Arb.), 53. Lycknest thou to whoarmongers A colage of clarckes and scolears?
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., III. ii. 37. If he be a Whore-monger, and comes before him, he were as good go a mile on his errand.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IX. 408. What was Clement the 5. but an open Whore munger?
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 250. If, by their self-indulgence, the glutton, the drunkard, the loafer,… the whoremonger forfeit a future benefit [etc.].
So Whoremonging, the practice of a whoremonger, fornication.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 2 Pet. ii. 13–16. Nether haue they mynde of any thing elles, than vpon whoremonging, and other kyndes of wikednes.
1563. St. Andrews Kirk-sess. Reg. (1889), 189. The delacionis gevyn in upon tham … for huyrmongyn inveterat.
1893. Voice (N.Y.), 10 Aug. We would dissociate liquor selling from low, corrupt politics, from gambling, from whoremonging and from all other forms of immoral pursuit!
