harlotize
verbEtymology From harlot + -ize.
1
To act like a harlot.
- It is no extraordinary paradox, That a man may himſelf debauch his own wife, and a woman harlotize with her own huſband.—But this ſubject muſt be touched with great nicety; therefore I ſhall only add, that even our moſt unobſerved behaviour ſhall carry with it ſuch a ſpirit of refinement, as to prevent that vulgar and libidinous degeneracy, which will infallibly blunt the edge of our joys, and in the end pall our reliſh.1746, Benjamin Franklin, “Letter II”, in Reflections on Courtship and Marriage, section 4, London: A. Thompson, et al, page 39:
2
To turn into a harlot; to prostitute.
- […] Yeat too too forcible I feare to be forgot of some, / For slaunder set on foote, though false, is talkatiuely dome. / Malicious (for thy malice is thy matter all in all) / Is it to harlotize, thinkst thou, a Goddesse wrong too small, / But thou must forge it from the Earth, euen from the Sheep-cote? Nay, […]1597, William Warner, Albion's England, book 6, chapter 30:
- "Then that's what you are!" I shrieked. “You're a devilwoman harlot who is trying to harlotize and demonize the time-tested and decent practice of fighting that every decent..."2011, Will Cunningham, How to Win a Family Fight, page 165: