Crossword clues for adulterer
adulterer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulterer \A*dul"ter*er\, n. [Formed fr. the verb adulter, with the E. ending -er. See Advoutrer.]
A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
(Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
--Jer. ix. 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., earlier avouter (c.1300), avoutrer (late 14c.), agent noun from obsolete verb adulter "commit adultery; adulterate" (late 14c.), from Latin adulterare "to corrupt" (see adulteration).
Wiktionary
n. One who commits adultery.
WordNet
n. someone who commits adultery or fornication [syn: fornicator]
Usage examples of "adulterer".
Nevertheless the fixed practice of refusing whoremongers, adulterers, murderers, and idolaters readmission to the Church, in ordinary cases, prevented men from forgetting that there was a boundary line dividing her from the world.
Son of a whore, pot of excrement, liar, thief, hypocrite trimmer and counterfeiter, adulterer, glutton, coward, voluptuary, sodomite, usurer, simoniac, necromancer, sower of discord, cheat!
Then the corps moved his head again, and made reverence to the people and sayd, Verily I was poisoned by the meanes of my wicked wife, and so thereby yeelded my bed unto an adulterer.
Instead of declaring his sexuality, he is driven to adopt the pose of playboy, thus attracting the criticism reserved for transracial adulterers.
Who had ever heard of God blessing adulterers with an undeformed child?
Traitors are like adulterers: anyone who cheats on one wife will likely cheat on another one, too.
I had allowed al-Azufa to lead the prayers, he would have railed against the president for a lack of piety and probably stoned to death a few adulterers for good measure.
Then the corps moved his head again, and made reverence to the people and sayd, Verily I was poisoned by the meanes of my wicked wife, and so thereby yeelded my bed unto an adulterer.
I see but murderers, adulterers, conspirators, false swearers, men in perpetual terrors, and betrayed by their dearest friends and acquaintance.
He had visited too many conventions at similar places, molds twenty years past their prime on the outskirts of small towns near enough to a city to attract truckers, salespeople, adulterers, swap meets, and fan conventions.
The young-man who was the comeliest of all the adulterers, ran away, and did nothing else that night save onely bewaile his striped and painted buttockes.
Yet a philosopher might have reflected, that, if the resistance of his wife had been sincere, her chastity was still inviolate, and that it could never be restored if she had consented to the will of the adulterer.
Henry knew Timothy to be an incorrigible: thief, adulterer, liar, deceptor, vagrant and a dozen other characterizations, each repugnant to a proper household.
Patrick sent all those leftover snakes from Ireland down there just so Lucifer could make up a pit for adulterers to sleep in.
Saint John says that adulterers shall be in Hell "in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone"- in the fire for the lechery, in brimstone for the stink of their filthiness.