The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adultery \A*dul"ter*y\, n.; pl. Adulteries. [L. adulterium. See Advoutry.]
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The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery.
Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.]
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(Script.)
Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
Faithlessness in religion.
--Jer. iii. 9.
(Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
(Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
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Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.]
You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of adultery English)
Usage examples of "adulteries".
Like many men in town, he'd often laughed about Elfred's adulteries and disparaged his wife for her ignorance.
Strip the romantic veil off the naked animal's only purpose perpetuating the species the race the tribe the family for everybody else sex is for pleasure like the flute, pushpin or poetry "the most intense pleasure of which man is capable" says my golden Sigi, seek pleasure avoid not a clue what they're being used for even that they're being used till the roof falls in, doctors lawyers abortions adulteries thimble theatre learned nothing forgotten nothing go right back and do it all again.
Tolstoy's narrator, Pózdnyshev, complains that piano recitals initiated "the greater part of the adulteries in our society.
The adulteries of the African soldiers are checked by one of the Imperial laws.
She would know what you could get away with in the curtainless room, what adulteries, what fantastic betrayals .
Like the weight of a million adulteries, complications, untruths, chances for betrayal.
At present, then, I will limit my discussion to this dilemma: If that which their books relate about the mother of Aeneas and the father of Romulus be true, how can the gods be displeased with men for adulteries which, when committed by themselves, excite no displeasure?
If it is false, not even in this case can the gods be angry that men should really commit adulteries, which, even when falsely attributed to the gods, they delight in.
For they would thus be driven to acknowledge that it were possible for a very wealthy man to buy absolution from murders, adulteries, and all manner of wickedness, by paying a daily alms of ten paltry coins.
Is it not proved by his love of so many vain and hurtful things, which produces gnawing cares, disquiet, griefs, fears, wild joys, quarrels, lawsuits, wars, treasons, angers, hatreds, deceit, flattery, fraud, theft, robbery, perfidy, pride, ambition, envy, murders, parricides, cruelty, ferocity, wickedness, luxury, insolence, impudence, shamelessness, fornications, adulteries, incests, and the numberless uncleannesses and unnatural acts of both sexes, which it is shameful so much as to mention.
When that happened, Nezahualpili would avenge himself upon all who had aided or abetted the girl's adulteries, and the murders to hide the adulteries, and the statues to flaunt the murders.
They fight among themselves, or they indulge in adulteries, or they commit other mischiefs.
But there was nothing like that in their lives: no adulteries, no violence, and certainly no raised voices.
Gossip though she was, Margie had never been much of a name-dropper (she was almost as gleeful discussing the intricacies of a favorite waiter's adulteries as those of a congressman), and it wasn't until now that Rachel realized just how many famous and influential people Margie had known.
I helped arrange his several adulteries, so that none ever embarrassed him.