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adultery

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB commit ▪ For the first time he was tempted to commit scientific adultery . ▪ Smith admits he did wrong by committing adultery with the wife of a Marine sergeant, while the enlisted man was overseas. ▪ He'd committed ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Adultery ( anglicised from Latin adulterium ) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral or legal grounds. Though what sexual activities constitute adultery varies, as well as the social, religious and legal consequences, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. 2 (context Bible English) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. 3 (context Bible English) Faithlessness in religion. 4 ...

Usage examples of adultery.

Love of evil is love of committing adultery, taking revenge, defrauding, blaspheming, depriving others of their possessions.

For example, it is from the love into which he is born that he desires to commit adultery, to defraud, to blaspheme, to take revenge.

Because this is profane, hell is called adultery, and heaven on the other hand is called marriage.

It is the same with all other sins, with adultery and whoredom, revenge and hatred, blasphemy and lying.

If a man examines only the external he sees only what he has committed to deed, and that he has not murdered or committed adultery or stolen or borne false witness, and so on.

Any other evil in which man is by heredity is dealt with in like manner, such as adultery, fraud, vengeance, blasphemy and other similar evils, none of which can be removed except as freedom to think and will them is left to man for him to remove them as if of himself.

For this reason one who is in the love of ruling from the love of self thinks nothing of defrauding his neighbor, committing adultery with his wife, slandering him, breathing vengeance on him even to the death, treating him cruelly, and other such deeds.

It was also granted me to perceive that there issued from this enjoyment as from their fountainhead the enjoyments of evils of all kinds, such as adultery, revenge, fraud, slander, and evil-doing in general.

Thus if one acknowledges that revenge and hatred, adultery and fornication, fraud and deceit, blasphemy and lying are sins against God and yet commits them, he is therefore in the more grievous of this kind of profanation.

The Word and, in particular, the precepts of the Decalog are the means with those who acknowledge all kinds of murder, adultery, theft and false witness to be sins.

But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.

Once a religion is established in a nation the Lord leads that nation according to the precepts and tenets of its own religion, and He has provided that there should be precepts in every religion like those in the Decalog, that God should be worshiped, His name not be profaned, a holy day be observed, that parents be honored, murder, adultery and theft not be committed, and false witness not be spoken.

Does the man make anything of defrauding or defaming or hating another even to death, or of committing adultery with his wife, or of being cruel to him out of revenge, the while having the desire in mind to get the upper hand of all and to possess the goods of all others, thus regarding others in comparison with himself as insignificant and of little worth?

Hatred does, and revenge, theft and fraud, adultery and whoredom, pride and presumption, and the rest.

It would be similar with adultery, had it not been provided that the power to commit this evil decreases with the abuse, but with many there still remains the enjoyment of thinking and talking about it, and if nothing more, there is still the lust of touch.