† Bitchery

Obs. [f. BITCH sb.¹ + -ERY.] Lewdness, harlotry.

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1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 648/1. Such mariage is very vnlawfull lechery and plain abhominable bychery.

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1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, I. iv. 188. He will vnline himselfe from bitchery.

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a. 1704. T. Brown, Wks. (1760), III. 94 (D.). The roguery of their lawyers, the bitchery of their paramours.

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