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adultery
  1. (biblical) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
  2. (biblical) Faithlessness in religion.
  3. (obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
  4. (ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
  5. (Political economy) Adulteration; corruption.
  6. (obsolete) Injury; degradation; ruin.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Children whose parents are split asunder by adultery have their assumptions about trust, fidelity, and commitment greatly damaged.”
      “There are a lot of married men who are committing adultery in every new town they are moved to.”
      “However, it has been held that the petitioner need not find it intolerable to live with the respondent because of his adultery.”
adulteress
  1. A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Opponents relentlessly portrayed the quiet, devout Rachel as an adulteress at best, more often as a seductress and loose woman.”
      “Having a child in this society was about as much a sin as being an adulteress in the Puritan society of The Scarlet Letter.”
      “Eliza was an adulteress long before Gabriel had his affair with your mother.”
adulterine
  1. (rare) One born of an adulterous union.
adultress
  1. Alternative form of adulteress
adulterousness
  1. A state of being adulterous.
adulterer
  1. One who commits adultery.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “All it would prove is that he was an adulterer who often cheated on his wife.”
      “He was also a serial adulterer, regularly confessing his sins before committing them afresh.”
      “He gives orders for other human beings to be blown away and he is a serial adulterer, but his power has unexpected limits.”
adulterines
  1. plural of adulterine
adulteresses
adulterers
  1. plural of adulterer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Under the cloak of anonymity, lovers, adulterers and closet gamblers were free to behave appallingly.”
      “Infidelity is likewise immoral, but do we really want to throw adulterers in jail?”
      “Tensions erupted when one company's officers and troops accused their counterparts in the other unit of not restraining the two adulterers.”
adultresses
  1. plural of adultress
  2. Examples:
    1. “Women wrestled then befriended adultresses, men abducted brides, light-hearted capers segued into murder.”
adulteries
  1. plural of adultery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The preacher's adulteries scandalize the Scripture-reading congregation of Zion Hope.”
      “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and slanders.”
      “The first act offers parallel adulteries or near-adulteries by two unacquainted couples, each husband coincidentally carrying on with the other's wife.”
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