fornication
voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
Bible. idolatry.
Origin of fornication
1Other words from fornication
- for·ni·ca·to·ry [fawr-ni-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /ˈfɔr nɪ kəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
Words that may be confused with fornication
- formication, fornication
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How to use fornication in a sentence
Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousFor she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousI have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousCare is to be taken, lest, by inordinate and immoderate fornications, conjugial love be destroyed.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgCare is to be taken, lest by immoderate and inordinate fornications conjugial love be destroyed, n. 456.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel Swedenborg
British Dictionary definitions for fornication
/ (ˌfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃən) /
voluntary sexual intercourse outside marriage
law voluntary sexual intercourse between two persons of the opposite sex, where one is or both are unmarried
Bible sexual immorality in general, esp adultery
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