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† spouse-breaker Obs.
[f. spouse n. + breaker: cf. prec.]
An adulterer.
a1300Cursor M. 25778 Spous-breker be þat womman þat juus dempt for to stan. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 157 He made his felawe a spouse brekere. c1400Apol. Loll. 54 Fraudars, misdoars, sortylogers, spousbrekars. c1425Audelay XI Pains of Hell 62 in O.E. Misc., Bynd spouse⁓brekers with awouters, And ranegates with raueners. 1548–77Vicary Anat. i. (1888) 15 That he be no spous-breaker, nor no drunkarde. 1562Legh Armory 105 The Swanne pursueth the cockolde-maker.., & will not leaue the spouse breaker, tyll he kyll or bee killed. |