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. - 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. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - 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. - UNVOLUNTARY
Involuntary. Fuller. - ASEXUALLY
In an asexual manner; without sexual agency. - 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
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