adultery
voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their lawful spouse.
Origin of adultery
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How to use adultery in a sentence
In its adulteries, philanthropies and bankruptcies, I see family resemblances.
After all, Newt Gingrich has gotten hammered for his serial adulteries, for which he has sought forgiveness.
And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousWhen ladies talk of their adulteries to their female friends, they say, "I confess I have some inclination for him."
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)All then retired, the oldest being the first to depart, since the greater their age the more adulteries they had committed.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Do not adulteries take place with devils in hell, and marriages with angels in heaven?
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgChastity cannot be predicated of those who abstain from adulteries only for various external reasons.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel Swedenborg
British Dictionary definitions for adultery
/ (əˈdʌltərɪ) /
voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man or woman and a partner other than the legal spouse
Origin of adultery
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