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Lewd (Anglo-Saxon, leóde)

simply means folk in general, verb leod-an. The present meaning refers to the celibacy of the clergy.

All that a lewd man hath need to knawe for hele of sowl.”—Caxton Society’s Publications.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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