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Adultery

Adultery Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Adultery? [n] extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Adultery: criminal conversation \| fornication Related Terms \| Find terms related to Adultery: act of love \| adulterous affair \| affair \| amour \| aphrodisia \| ass \| balling \| carnal knowledge \| climax \| cohabitation \| coition \| coitus \| coitus interruptus \| commerce \| concubinage \| congress \| connection \| copula \| copulation \| coupling \| criminal conversation \| cuckoldry \| diddling \| entanglement \| eternal triangle \| extracurricular sex \| extramarital relations \| flirtation \| forbidden love \| fornication \| free love \| free-lovism \| hanky-panky \| illicit love \| incest \| infidelity \| intercourse \| intimacy \| intrigue \| liaison \| love affair \| lovemaking \| making it with \| marital relations \| marriage act \| mating \| meat \| onanism \| orgasm \| ovum \| pareunia \| premarital relations \| premarital sex \| procreation \| relations \| romance \| romantic tie \| screwing \| sex \| sex act \| sexual climax \| sexual commerce \| sexual congress \| sexual intercourse \| sexual relations \| sexual union \| sleeping with \| sperm \| triangle \| unfaithfulness \| venery See Also \| extramarital sex \| free love Adultery In Webster's Dictionary \Adul"tery\, n.; pl. {Adulteries}. [L. adulterium. See {Advoutry}.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called {double adultery}; between a married and an unmarried person, {single adultery}. 2. Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 3. (Script.) (a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. (b) Faithlessness in religion. --Jer. iii. 9. 4. (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. 5. (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. 6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. --B. Jonson.

Adultery Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adultery?

[n] extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Adultery: criminal conversation | fornication

See Also | extramarital sex | free love

Adultery In Webster's Dictionary

\A*dul"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Adulteries}. [L. adulterium.
See {Advoutry}.]
1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage
   bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than
   his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married
   woman with another than her husband.



Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer.
      The word has also been used to characterize the act of
      an unmarried participator, the other being married. In
      the United States the definition varies with the local
      statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married
      persons is sometimes called {double adultery}; between
      a married and an unmarried person, {single adultery}.

2. Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

3. (Script.)
   (a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as
       forbidden by the seventh commandment.
   (b) Faithlessness in religion. --Jer. iii. 9.

4. (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of
   adultery.

5. (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during
   the life of the bishop.

6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.]

         You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the
         adultery and spoil of nature.         --B. Jonson.

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