PROSTITUTION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

2.
n.

The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press. "Mental prostitution." Byron.