Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹi/
adultery
- Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
- She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, De Cive
- So also that copulation which in one City is Matrimony, in another will be judged Adultery.
- 2009 Garner's Modern American Usage ↗ page 22
- Under modern statutory law, some courts hold that the unmarried participant isn't guilty of adultery (that only the married participant is)
- (biblical) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
- (biblical) Faithlessness in religion.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Jeremiah 3:9 ↗:
- And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
- (obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
- (ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
- (political economy) Adulteration; corruption.
- (obsolete) Injury; degradation; ruin.
- advowtry (obsolete)
- French: adultère
- German: Ehebruch
- Italian: adulterio
- Portuguese: adultério
- Russian: прелюбодея́ние
- Spanish: adulterio
- Russian: прелюбодея́ние
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