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Someone who commits adultery
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fornicator
Word definitions for fornicator in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Late Latin fornicator , agent noun from fornicat- , stem of fornicari "to fornicate" (see fornication ). Of the fem. forms, fornicatrice is c.1500, fornicatrix 1580s, fornicatress 1590s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pejorative English) An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who commits adultery or fornication [syn: adulterer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fornicator \For"ni*ca`tor\, n. [F. fornicateur, OF. fornicator, from L. fornicator.] An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
Usage examples of fornicator.
We froze, not daring to move or make a sound, and I almost giggled, thinking how ludicrous we would look to Equus, standing there like a statue of fornicators.
Otherwise the virtuous ones feared that the fornicators would go, like the all sinners, to the fiery sacrificial pit of the Moloch, and their souls will rot in the foulness of hell.
And this resemblance in crime applies no less to other sinners than to fornicators: because by other mortal sins, sinners act against the charity of Christ, of which this sacrament is the sign, and all the more according as their sins are graver.
Sometimes he had to clamber over a roomful of sleepers or fornicators, since the slaves and peasantry had nothing to do after dark except sleep or fornicate.
So it now became obvious that the apocalypse would come on New Year's Eve, 1921, when Hibbard's followers would be wafted up to heaven, while the fornicators, the scoffers, the meat-eaters, the Darwinians, the blasphemers, and all the rest of us rubbish would be hurled, twisting and screaming, into eternal fires.
It's God's punishment for fornicators -" "Oh, get out, you blaspheming lunatic.
The wicked fell into the black waters of an abyss and sank to a depth proportionate to their sins: fornicators up to the nostrils, persecutors of their fellow man up to the eyebrows.
Mr Hartley was dead-set against changing the town's name to one suggested by a man who had proved to be a thief, fornicator, false prophet, and all-round snake in the grass.