fornication

for·ni·ca·tion  (fôrn-kshn)

n.

Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.

Word History: The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicti, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch." The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicr, "to commit fornication," from which is derived fornicti, "whoredom, fornication." Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303.

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fornication [ˌfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃən]

n

1. voluntary sexual intercourse outside marriage

2. (Law) Law voluntary sexual intercourse between two persons of the opposite sex, where one is or both are unmarried

3. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Bible sexual immorality in general, esp adultery

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fornication - voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other extramarital sex, free love - sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another
	2.	fornication - extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" adultery, criminal conversation extramarital sex, free love - sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another

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fornication

noun

1. adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, extra-marital congress or relations or sex, living in sin, extra-curricular sex (informal), pre-marital congress or relations or sex Fornication is a crime in some American states.

2. immorality, sin, indecency, promiscuity, impurity, incontinence, debauchery, free love, sleeping around, dissipation, looseness, lechery, immodesty, shamelessness, easy virtue, loose morals, salaciousness, lasciviousness, uncleanness, libertinism, unchastity, dissoluteness, indelicacy an embarrassing blend of failure, farce and fornication

Translations

fornication [ˌfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃən] N (frm) → fornicación f

fornication [ˌfɔː^rnɪˈkeɪʃ^ən] n → fornication f

fornication

n → Unzucht f

fornication [ˌfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃ/ən] n → fornicazione f