About The Word Fornication
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Fornication
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What's The Definition Of Fornication?
[n] extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"
[n] voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other Synonyms | Synonyms for Fornication: adultery | criminal conversation Related Terms | Find terms related to Fornication: act of love | adultery | aphrodisia | ass | balling | carnal knowledge | climax | cohabitation | coition | coitus | coitus interruptus | commerce | concubinage | congress | connection | copula | copulation | coupling | criminal conversation | cuckoldry | diddling | extracurricular sex | extramarital relations | free love | free-lovism | incest | intercourse | intimacy | lovemaking | making it with | marital relations | marriage act | mating | meat | onanism | orgasm | ovum | pareunia | premarital relations | premarital sex | procreation | relations | screwing | sex | sex act | sexual climax | sexual commerce | sexual congress | sexual intercourse | sexual relations | sexual union | sleeping with | sperm | venery See Also | extramarital sex | free love Fornication In Webster's Dictionary \For`ni*ca"tion\, n. [F. fornication, L.
fornicatio.]
1. Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried
person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between
a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the
ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to
secular prosecution. In the United States it is
indictable in some States at common law, in others only
by statute. --Whartyon.
2. (Script.)
(a) Adultery.
(b) Incest.
(c) Idolatry.
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