Lysistratan
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or relating to Lysistrata; achieving a political goal by denying sex to one's partner, or similar.
"The public and private outcry when Clement tried to outlaw prostitution or banish its practitioners must have reached the very ears of the ascetic pope himself and persuaded him it was entirely impractical: if he needed workmen, they needed women or he would have an outright war of Lysistratan proportions."
Example
More examples"The public and private outcry when Clement tried to outlaw prostitution or banish its practitioners must have reached the very ears of the ascetic pope himself and persuaded him it was entirely impractical: if he needed workmen, they needed women or he would have an outright war of Lysistratan proportions."
Etymology
From Lysistrata + -an.
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