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adulterer|əˈdʌltərə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 avou-, avow- -terer, -terere, -tereer, -trer, -trere, -treer; 4–7 avouterer; 5–7 advou-, advow- -terer, -trer, etc.; 6 advoterer, advoulterer, aduoulterer, adoulterer; 6– adulterer.
[f. avouter, adulter v. + -er1, term. of male agent. Cf. rare OFr. avoutrier and fem. avoltreresse. (For the gradual change of the word under L. influence from avouterer to adulterer, see adulter n. and v.) Already in Wyclif interchanged with the earlier avouter, and in the middle of 17th c. adulter-er (in its various forms), more distinctly expressing the agent, displaced adulter and its forms. Cf. cater-er, fripper-er, sorcer-er, and see -er1.]
1. One who commits adultery; who violates a marriage-bed, whether his own or another's.
c1370Wyclif Agst. Begging Friers (1608) 53 If there be anie cursed Jurour, extortioner or avowtrer. 1382― Ps. xlix. 18 With avoutereres thi porcioun thou leidist. ― Deut. xxii. 22 Eyther shal die, that is the auowtreer and the auowtresse [1388 auowter and auowtresse]. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 805 (Petw. MS.) Þise aduoutrers breken þe temple of god spiritually [other MSS. avowtiers, auoutyeris, aduoutres]. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xviii. 103 Summe ben founde.. to be greet lecchouris, summe to be avoutreris. 1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 65 Keping the dore while the auoutrer is within. 1513Douglas æneis xi. vi. 106 The sle adultrare occupiis his stede. 1535Coverdale Job xxiv. 15 The aduouterer, that wayteth for the darcknesse. 1541Barnes Wks. 1573, 319/1 Certayne men doe affirme those men to bee aduoulterers. 1549Prayer-Bk., Exhort. at Comm., If any here be a blasphemer, aduouterer [1552 adulterer], or bee in malyce or envie. c1585Pilkington Wks. 1841, 642 And called him proud, advoterer, a thief and heretic. 1611Bible Heb. xiii. 5 Whoremongers and adulterers [Wycl. auoutreris (auouteris), Tind. advoutrars, Cranm. aduoutrers, Genev., Rhem. aduouterers] God will judge. 1629Coke 1st Pt. of Instit. 72 b, If shee goeth willingly with or to the auowtrer. 1653Baxter Chr. Conc. 70 Hereticks, Advouterers, Church-robbers. 1686Dryden Hind. & P. iii. 1216 Reeking from the stews, adulterers come. 1708Termes de la Ley 68 Avowterer is an Adulterer with whom a married woman continues in Adultery. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 306 (transl. Sueton.) This husband or adulterer of three queens [Felix].
b. Also of a woman = adulteress.
c1550Cheke Matt. v. 32 Whosoever divorceth his wife, except it be for fornications cause, doth mak her an adulterer. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Rom. vii. 3 She shal be called an adulterer.
†2. One who adulterates, corrupts, or debases; an adulterator. Obs. rare.
1650Urquhart Rabelais (1807) III. 295 Usurers, apothecaries, cheats, coiners, and adulterers of wares. |