adultery (noun)

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• adultery — adul·tery /ə dəl tə rē/ n: voluntary sexual activity (as sexual intercourse) between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband; also: the crime of adultery compare fornication… …   Law dictionary

• adultery — ► NOUN ▪ voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse. DERIVATIVES adulterous adjective …   English terms dictionary

• adultery — (n.) voluntary violation of the marriage bed, c.1300, avoutrie, from O.Fr. avouterie (12c.), noun of condition from avoutre, from L. adulterare to corrupt (see ADULTERATION (Cf. adulteration)). Modern spelling, with the re inserted d , is from… …   Etymology dictionary

• adultery — noun VERB + ADULTERY ▪ be guilty of, commit ▪ accuse sb of ▪ admit PREPOSITION ▪ adultery with …   Collocations dictionary

• adultery — noun (U) sex between someone who is married and someone who is not their wife or husband: commit adultery: She had committed adultery on several occasions. adulterous adjective …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• adultery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English, alteration of avoutrie, from Anglo French avulterie, from Latin adulterium, from adulter adulterer, back formation from adulterare Date: 15th century voluntary sexual intercourse betw …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adultery — noun Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See Also: adulter, adulterate, adulterer, adulteress, adulterine, adulterise, adulterous …   Wiktionary

• adultery — noun voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their husband or wife. Derivatives adulterous adjective adulterously adverb Origin C15: from obs. adulter, from L. adulter adulterer …   English new terms dictionary

• adultery — [14] Neither adultery nor the related adulterate have any connection with adult. Both come ultimately from the Latin verb adulterāre ‘debauch, corrupt’ (which may have been based on Latin alter ‘other’, with the notion of pollution from some… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• adultery — [14] Neither adultery nor the related adulterate have any connection with adult. Both come ultimately from the Latin verb adulterāre ‘debauch, corrupt’ (which may have been based on Latin alter ‘other’, with the notion of pollution from some… …   Word origins

• adultery — UK [əˈdʌlt(ə)rɪ] / US [əˈdʌltərɪ] noun [uncountable] sex that takes place between a married person and someone who is not their husband or wife They were divorced on the grounds of adultery …   English dictionary