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SODOMITE. One who his been guilty of sodomy. Formerly such offender was punished with great severity, and was deprived of the power of making a will.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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L'effectivite des interdits sexuels permet, a partir du Moyen Age, aux autorites civiles et ecclesiastiques d'augmenter progressivement leur controle sur les sodomites, souvent associes aux heretiques.
Patrice Corriveau, Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France
While both the antediluvians and the Sodomites are punished for their homosexual acts, Belzhazzar's fault lies in mishandling sacred objects dedicated to God.
The god of the Middle English Cleanness and his erotic exhortations of purity
When Spaniards declared that "they are all sodomites," "sodomites more than any other race," who "take great pride in it," the message was clear.
New World Sodom: Biblical Tales of Conquest and Acculturation
And so has the figure of the sodomite, both before, during, and after the period which Zizek is describing.
'Dung, guts and blood': sodomy, abjection and Gothic fiction in the early nineteenth century
The chapter on James's The Tragic Muse juxtaposes the Labouchere Amendment, the Souls, the paintings of Sargent and Whistler, and James's novel in a heady mix of politics, aesthetics, and desire; while the closing chapter on Wilde links Ireland, Rosebery, sodomites, and the associations of the word 'partner'.
Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England
There is a horrid sense of deja vu in the spectacle of Lord Alfred's hounding Robbie as, two decades before, the scarlet screaming marquess had hounded Bosie's 'posing sodomite' lover.
ROBBIE ROSS: THE EARNEST FRIEND
Oscar Wilde's fall came about because he felt obliged to sue for libel at being accused of `posing as a sodomite' -- he was not even being called a sodomite, just that he was acting like one.
WAS `K' GAY?
It does so even while condemning in the most vituperative terms "the Sodomite men's proclaimed preference for making love with males" (13).
Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts
was casting Sullivan as a sodomite Christ quavering to the Prophet Peretz.
Sullivan: who cares?
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