1942: By this necrophily, and a pervasive nastiness about sex …, millions were raised to a state of rapture. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 173)
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1942: By this necrophily, and a pervasive nastiness about sex …, millions were raised to a state of rapture. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 173)
Source: wiktionary
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