† ˈputery Obs.
Also 4 putrie, 4–5 -erie, 5 putrye, -ree, -erye.
[a. OF. put(e)rie whoredom, f. pute: see pute n.: -ery1.]
Unchastity (properly in a woman); harlotry, prostitution.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 10 Þes pharisees geten hem moo holderis vp for here putrie þan for here trewe prechyng. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶812 What seye we eek of Putours þat lyuen by the horrible synne of putrie, and constreyne wommen to yelden to hem a certeyn rente of hire bodily puterie? c 1440 York Myst. xxiv. 30 We haue hir tane with putry playne. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour lj, In puterye and in synne mortalle or dedely he [the deuylle] hath grete power. |