Victorian sexual morality

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• Anxiety extreme worry
• arouse stimulate sexually
• bastard person whose parents are not married
• bolt roll
• boom have a period of rapid economic growth
• brothel house of prostitutes
• chaste modest, virtuous (virgin state)
• chronicle write a record of events
• cloth woven fabric
• coffin-dwelling living in a box where a dead body is buried
• depraved morally bad
• deviance difference in moral standards from what is considered acceptable
• devotion constant strong love
• differentiate show that two things are different
• erode wear away gradually
• fend for oneself support and care for oneself
• flex muscles bend or move the muscles for exercise
• fueled by supplied by
• innovation something new
• manufacture make goods on large scale
• massive huge
• mourning period of grief after the death of somebody
• nobility people of high social rank who have titles (duke)
• out of wedlock of unmarried parents
• pantaloon trousers
• paradoxical containing opposite ideas that seem absurd
• ply one's trade work at a skilled job
• potent strong
• prescribe advise
• promiscuous having many sexual partners
• prudish easily shocked
• ration limit
• recuperate recover after being ill or tired
• skimpy leaving much of the body uncovered
• smelt heat and melt
• sodomite person who has anal intercourse
• squalor shocking dirtiness
• strut walk in an upright and proud way
• surge sudden increase
• swagger walk proudly with moving hips
• underwent (from undergo) experience
• uptight nervously stiff
• urge strong impulse
• usher in invite and encourage
• veneer thin outer covering of polished wood
• victim person who is injured as a result of crime, accident etc
• wench young woman

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