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A woman given up to fornication: there were such as early as Gen. 38: 15. The term is used metaphorically for unfaithfulness: "how is the faithful city become an harlot!" Isa. 1: 21; Ezek. 16: 31, 35. The mystic Babylon is designated "The mother of harlots," Rev. 17: 5: not only unfaithful herself, but the mother of such.