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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulterous

Adulterous \A*dul"ter*ous\, a.

  1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.
    --Dryden.

  2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. ``An adulterous mixture.'' [Obs.]
    --Smollett.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adulterous

c.1400, avoutrious "addicted to adultery," from obsolete verb adulter (see adulterer) + -ous.

Wiktionary
adulterous

a. Of, or characterized by adultery.

WordNet
adulterous
  1. adj. characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband" [syn: extramarital, extracurricular]

  2. not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: cheating(a), two-timing(a)]

Usage examples of "adulterous".

But according to John 8 Christ absolved the adulterous woman without Penance.

Her mother, Losset, had had numerous public adulterous liaisons, until Sanker finally had her executed for treason.

Domestic mediocrity drove her to lewd fancies, marriage tenderness to adulterous desires.

Yet it could not be right, could it, to pillory Burgo Smyth for an adulterous affair thirty years earlier?

Its deductive approach, even to the measurement of clothing, results in complete ineptitude, and its array of abstract misfits, flappers, and adulterous wives, fleshes out the impression that the Laputans not only have the wrong idea but insist in imposing that idea universally.

Gweran was singing a ballad from the Dawntime, the sad tale of Lady Maeva and Lord Benoic and their adulterous love.

People in all walks of life, from libidinous Cabinet Ministers to adulterous housewives, have been the object of blackmailsome of whom have made headlines, with a great many more who have not.

It sufficeth that hee is defamed in every place for his adulterous living, wherefore all occasion ought to bee taken away by meane of marriage : he hath chosen a Maiden that fancieth him well, and hath bereaved her of her virginity, let him have her still, and possesse her according to his owne pleasure : then he returned to Venus, and said, And you my daughter, take you no care, neither feare the dishonour of your progeny and estate, neither have regard in that it is a mortall marriage, for it seemeth unto me just, lawfull, and legitimate by the law civill.

To keep the structure of their civilization intact, their love had to be adulterous, to have as its object someone not chosen by the family but by the lover, and therefore almost always unconsummated.

Domestic mediocrity drove her to lewd fancies, marriage tenderness to adulterous desires.

Dominic had declined, having no interest in an adulterous liaison with no future.

James Balfour, which prove that the guilty persons had united their adulterous hearts before it was permitted them to unite their bloody hands.

CHAPTER 11 His lordship should know, Malachi Braithwaite had written in a careful copperplate hand, that his wife was conducting an adulterous affair with Ensign Sharpe.

Philip the First, of France, supported with patience the censures which he had provoked by his scandalous life and adulterous marriage.

If the poets gave a false representation of Jove in describing him as adulterous, then it were to be expected that the chaste gods should in anger avenge so wicked a fiction, in place of encouraging the games which circulated it.