† devoterern.
Obsolete.
= adulterer n. 1.
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1550 T. Becon Govern. Virtue in Early Wks. (1843) 450 The man that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife..let him be slain, both the devoterer [1566 advoterer] and the advouteress.
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