« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 07 April 20 23:53 BST (UK) »
None of the old fashioned words upset me, for one thing they give a clue where the words originated (which country, Norse, Germanic, etc) and set out very clearly, either what occupation or what action took place at any given point in time.
My take on this word is that its meaning is as old as the days when Jesus walked the earth and we know that meanings of words do change over time. The King James I bible, written hundreds of years ago translated words that had originally been written in Hebrew, many centuries prior to the translation and this is what the word meant:-
(Leviticus 18:6-20; 20:10-21). He and his descendants to the tenth generation are excluded from the assembly of the Lord.
Presumably at one time the Church of England precluded children born out of wedlock from their congregations too. As the Parish church was the place to apply for poor relief it was one threat hanging over young people's heads that they needed to be chaste or their offspring wouldn't be able to access everything in the parish that their neighbours could access.
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