pornographico-devotional

pornographico-devotional

English

Etymology

pornographic +‎ -o- +‎ devotional

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːnəˌɡɹæfɪkəʊdɪˈvəʊʃənəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹnəˌɡɹæfɪkoʊdɪˈvoʊʃənəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃənəl

Adjective

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.

Translations

both pornographic and devotional

References

• “pornographico-, comb. form” listed as a subentry of “pornographic, a.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)
• “pornographico-devotional, adj.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed., December 2006)