Adultery
[ə'dʌlt(ə)rɪ] or [ə'dʌltəri]
Definition
(noun.) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; 'adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce'.
Typed by Ewing--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Adulteration; corruption.
(n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(n.) Faithlessness in religion.
(n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
(n.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
(n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
Editor: Yvonne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Violation of the marriage-bed.
Typist: Phil
Definition
n. violation of the marriage-bed whether one's own or another's: in Scripture applied loosely to unchastity generally.—n. Adult′erer a man guilty of adultery:—fem. Adult′eress.—adj. Adult′erine resulting from adultery: spurious.—n. the offspring of adultery.—v.t. and v.i. Adult′erise (arch.).—adj. Adult′erous guilty of adultery.
Typist: Nola
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you commit adultery, foretells that you will be arrainged{sic} for some illegal action. If a woman has this dream, she will fail to hold her husband's affections, letting her temper and spite overwhelm her at the least provocation. If it is with her husband's friend, she will be unjustly ignored by her husband. Her rights will be cruelly trampled upon by him. If she thinks she is enticing a youth into this act, she will be in danger of desertion and divorced for her open intriguing. For a young woman this implies abasement and low desires, in which she will find strange adventures afford her pleasure. It is always good to dream that you have successfully resisted any temptation. To yield, is bad. If a man chooses low ideals, vampirish influences will swarm around him ready to help him in his nefarious designs. Such dreams may only be the result of depraved elementary influences. If a man chooses high ideals, he will be illuminated by the deific principle within him, and will be exempt from lascivious dreams. The man who denies the existence and power of evil spirits has no arcana or occult knowledge. Did not the black magicians of Pharaoh's time, and Simon Magnus, the Sorcerer, rival the men of God? The dreamer of amorous sweets is warned to beware of scandal.
Typed by Keller
Examples
- No one would take a census of prostitution, illegitimacy, adultery, or venereal disease for a statement of reliable facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One of those grounds, perhaps the chief one, would be adultery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And if the only way he can free himself is by adultery, does not your stringent divorce law put a premium upon vice? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Will the just state or the just individual steal, lie, commit adultery, or be guilty of impiety to gods and men? Plato. The Republic.
- She is the harlot, the actual harlot of adultery to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One of those causes is, I suppose, adultery with a prostitute. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No one will be less likely to commit adultery, or to dishonour his father and mother, or to fail in his religious duties? Plato. The Republic.
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