pornographico-devotional

English

Etymology

pornographic + -o- + devotional

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pornographico-devotional (not comparable)

  1. (of writings, rare) Both pornographic and devotional.
    • 1939, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume V: The Disintegrations of Civilizations: Part One, Oxford University Press (second edition, 1961), page 531:
      This Egyptiac conception of a single universal godhead manifesting itself under a host of local names was not only extended from Re of Heliopolis to Amon-Re of Thebes. In an age when the Egyptiac Civilization itself was on the eve of extinction we find an Egyptiac Isis who by this time had conquered a spiritual empire for herself in an alien Hellenic World laying claim to the same Protean universality in her epiphany to the hero of Apuleius’s pornographico-devotional romance.

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