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Definition of adultery in English: adulterynoun əˈdʌlt(ə)riəˈdəlt(ə)ri mass nounVoluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse. she was committing adultery with a much younger man Example sentencesExamples - There are a lot of married men who are committing adultery in every new town they are moved to.
- However, it has been held that the petitioner need not find it intolerable to live with the respondent because of his adultery.
- She had left him during the period they held the licence, because of his adultery, but had returned to him.
- Within three years he had tired of Anne Boleyn and she was beheaded in 1536, accused of treason and adultery.
- That is why we have laws against assault, but we do not have laws against adultery or premarital sex.
- Does this mean that a story about a female adulterer is noteworthy because male adultery is commonplace?
- Remarriage as adultery: Paul regarded it as adultery for a divorced person to remarry if the spouse was still alive.
- You could hook up with someone else, but that would be adultery and adultery is wrong.
- It is not enough not to commit adultery; lustful thoughts must be set aside too.
- If married, the charge was not rape but adultery, and the case was heard in another court.
- Husbands and others frequently bring charges of adultery against such wives.
- The marriage has to be consummated before an extramarital affair becomes adultery.
- He looks at his wife and his friend who he had so wrongfully accused of adultery 16 years ago.
- Am I to gather from this that adultery and unfaithfulness are being condoned?
- I didn't think that adultery was considered a crime, not by common law.
- Among the seventeen great sins, unbelief is the greatest, more heinous than murder, theft, adultery and so on.
- At the end of April 1536, Anne was accused of adultery with several men and incest with her brother George.
- The moral code of the laity rigorously condemns adultery on the part of a woman.
- Hence, adultery was thought of as sinful for women since it was a violation of the man's property etc.
- Recent storylines have even been promoting adultery and sexual activities.
Synonyms unfaithfulness, infidelity, falseness, disloyalty, unchastity, cuckoldry, extramarital sex, extramarital relations affair, liaison, intrigue, amour, entanglement, flirtation informal cheating, two-timing, fooling around, playing around, playing the field, carryings-on, hanky-panky, a bit on the side formal fornication
Origin Late 15th century: from the obsolete noun adulter, from Latin adulter 'adulterer', replacing an earlier form avoutrie, from Old French avouterie. Definition of adultery in US English: adulterynounəˈdəlt(ə)riəˈdəlt(ə)rē Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse. she was committing adultery with a much younger man Example sentencesExamples - Within three years he had tired of Anne Boleyn and she was beheaded in 1536, accused of treason and adultery.
- Does this mean that a story about a female adulterer is noteworthy because male adultery is commonplace?
- I didn't think that adultery was considered a crime, not by common law.
- The moral code of the laity rigorously condemns adultery on the part of a woman.
- He looks at his wife and his friend who he had so wrongfully accused of adultery 16 years ago.
- That is why we have laws against assault, but we do not have laws against adultery or premarital sex.
- Remarriage as adultery: Paul regarded it as adultery for a divorced person to remarry if the spouse was still alive.
- Among the seventeen great sins, unbelief is the greatest, more heinous than murder, theft, adultery and so on.
- If married, the charge was not rape but adultery, and the case was heard in another court.
- However, it has been held that the petitioner need not find it intolerable to live with the respondent because of his adultery.
- You could hook up with someone else, but that would be adultery and adultery is wrong.
- Am I to gather from this that adultery and unfaithfulness are being condoned?
- At the end of April 1536, Anne was accused of adultery with several men and incest with her brother George.
- She had left him during the period they held the licence, because of his adultery, but had returned to him.
- It is not enough not to commit adultery; lustful thoughts must be set aside too.
- Husbands and others frequently bring charges of adultery against such wives.
- Hence, adultery was thought of as sinful for women since it was a violation of the man's property etc.
- The marriage has to be consummated before an extramarital affair becomes adultery.
- There are a lot of married men who are committing adultery in every new town they are moved to.
- Recent storylines have even been promoting adultery and sexual activities.
Synonyms unfaithfulness, infidelity, falseness, disloyalty, unchastity, cuckoldry, extramarital sex, extramarital relations
Origin Late 15th century: from the obsolete noun adulter, from Latin adulter ‘adulterer’, replacing an earlier form avoutrie, from Old French avouterie. |