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crime against nature
noun
- Law. sodomy.
- any act considered to be against the laws or designs of nature or one's religious teachings.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crime against nature1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences
I do not go too far, when I call it the Crime against Nature, from which the soul recoils, and which language refuses to describe.
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It is not a crime against nature; nor are any of these which men commit in consequence of their necessities.
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Derelictio communis utilitatis contra naturam—The 50 abandonment of what is for the common good is a crime against nature.
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His trade can never be improved or purified, being itself a crime against Nature.
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To ignore a difference inherent in nature is a crime against nature and is punished accordingly by nature.
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