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adultery

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a·dul·ter·y  (-dlt-r, -tr)
n. pl. a·dul·ter·ies
Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse.

[Middle English, from Old French adultere, from Latin adulterium, from adulter, adulterer; see adulterate.]

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
Noun1.adultery - extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"
extramarital sex, free love - sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another

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 [əˈdʌltərɪ] Nadulterio m

adultery [əˈdʌltəri] nadultère m
to commit adultery → commettre l'adultère

adultery
nEhebruch m; to commit adulteryEhebruch begehen; because of his adultery with three actressesweil er mit drei Schauspielerinnen Ehebruch begangen hatte

adultery [əˈdʌltərɪ] nadulterio

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


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But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.
As if, when the marriage institution is abolished, concubinage, adultery, and incest, must not necessarily abound; when all the rights of humanity are annihilated, any barrier remains to protect the victim from the fury of the spoiler; when absolute power is assumed over life and liberty, it will not be wielded with destruc- tive sway
For gif adultery, sacrilege, oppression, barbarous cruelty, and theft heaped upon theft, deserve hell, the great King of Carrick can no more escape hell for ever, than the imprudent Abbot escaped the fire for a season as follows.
 
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