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Can you tell me what this Latin phrase means: "Nulla displicuit meretrix praeter Babylonicam". It was used to describe Lord Gordon, who instigated the anti-Catholic riots in the 1780s. I can't find anything on the internet.

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It means:  "No whore has displeased him except the (whore of) Babylon."  Apparently, Gordon was accustomed to frequent whores, whereas the only one he rejected was the "whore of  Babylon," a term used in St. John's Apocalypse, the last book of the New Testament, which probably refers to the Roman Emperor Nero, the persecutor of the Christians, but which some  Protestants used to refer to the pope.  

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