Adultery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse.
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  • n. Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
  • n. Adulteration; corruption.
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  • n. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
  • n. Faithlessness in religion.
  • n. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
  • n. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
  • n. Injury; degradation; ruin.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Violation of the marriage-bed; carnal connection of a married person with any other than the lawful spouse; in a more restricted sense, the wrong by a wife which introduces or may introduce a spurious offspring into a family.
  • n. In the seventh commandment of the decalogue, as generally understood, all manner of lewdness or unchastity in act or thought. See Mat. v. 28.
  • n. Eccles., intrusion into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
  • n. In old arboriculture, the grafting of trees: so called from its being considered an unnatural union.
  • n. Adulteration; corruption: as, “all the adulteries of art,”
  • n. Injury; degradation; ruin.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    free love    extramarital sex   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adulteration    corruption    injury    degradation    ruin    fornication    infidelity   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Latin    drunkenness    prostitution    perjury    arson    desertion    bigamy    rape    polygamy    theft   
     
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