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Word Meanings - ADULTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. 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

Additional info about word: ADULTERY

The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. 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. Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery. 2. Adulteration; corruption. B. Jonson. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. Faithlessness in religion. Jer. iii. 9.

Related words: (words related to ADULTERY)

  • IMPOSABLE
    Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • IMPOSSIBLE
    An impossibility. "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • IMPOSE
    A command; injunction. Shak.
  • OFFENSELESS
    Unoffending; inoffensive.
  • ADULTERY
    The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. 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
  • IMPOSINGNESS
    The quality of being imposing.
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • WOMANLY
    Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
  • IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
    A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
  • IMPOSTURAGE
    Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
  • IMPOSTOR
    One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
  • MARRIABLE
    Marriageable. Coleridge.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • INTERCOURSE
    A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
  • VOLUNTARY
    A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service. (more info) 1. One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. Shak.
  • IMPOSTHUMATION
    1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
  • MARRIER
    One who marries.
  • AIRWOMAN
    A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • ASEXUALIZATION
    The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
  • ASEXUALLY
    In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
  • UNVOLUNTARY
    Involuntary. Fuller.
  • UNWOMAN
    To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • BONDSWOMAN
    See BONDWOMAN

 

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