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adultery [əˈdʌltərɪ] n pl -teries
(Law) voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man or woman and a partner other than the legal spouse [C15 adulterie, altered (as if directly from Latin adulterium) from C14 avoutrie, via Old French from Latin adulterium, from adulter, back formation from adulterāre. See adulterate] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
adultery noun unfaithfulness, infidelity, cheating (informal), fornication, playing the field (slang), extramarital sex, playing away from home (slang), illicit sex, unchastity, extramarital relations, extracurricular sex (informal), extramarital congress, having an affair or a fling She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery. fidelity, chastity, faithfulness Quotations "It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws" [Alexander Theroux An Adultery] "Adultery is the application of democracy to love" [H.L. Mencken] "The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop" [John Updike Couples] Translations adultery n adultery [əˈdaltəri] sexual intercourse between a husband and a woman who is not his wife or between a wife and a man who is not her husband. egbreuk زِنَى прелюбодеяние cizoložství ægteskabsbrud; utroskab der Ehebruch μοιχεία adulterio abielurikkumine زنا aviorikos adultère נִאוּף @@@נִיאוּף$$$ व्यभिचार preljub házasságtörés zinah framhjáhald, hjúskaparbrot adulterio 姦通 간통 svetimavimas laulības pārkāpšana zina overspel ekteskapsbrudd, utroskap cudzołóstwo adultério adulter адюльтер, прелюбодеяние cudzoložstvo prešuštvo preljuba äktenskapsbrott การมีชู้ zina 通姦 адюльтер, порушення подружньої вірності ناجائز تعلقات sự ngoại tình 通奸 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Fully aware as she was of the seriously flawed moral code and
behaviour of the ruling class, Lady Anne [Barnard] was also fascinated
by and appalled at the promiscuity of colonial women and she returns
again and again to record the endless liaisons, adulteries and
depraved behaviour of more than a few of the colonists. Virtually blackmailing his wife
into taciturn acceptance of his adulteries, he reminds her that it is
his money that gives her and the children a luxurious nest in a white
world. He considers those who have been
caught up in adulteries, love affairs, and the sexual revolution, and he
concludes:
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