1) Advowtry 2) Infidelity
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1) Certain sin 2) Cheating on spouse 3) Commandment topic 4) Commandments taboo 5) Criminal conversation 6) Extramarital sex 7) Focus of The Scarlet Letter 8) Fornication 9) Free love 10) French word used in English 11) Madame bovary subject 12) Marital two-timing 13) Seventh Commandment sin 14) Ten Commandments subject
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Adultery (anglicised from Latin adulterium) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral or legal grounds. Though what sexual activities constitute adultery varies, as well as the social, religious and legal consequences, the concept exists in many cultures and is similar in Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Hist...
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• (n.) Adulteration; corruption. • (n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. • (n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. • (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin. • (n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a marr...
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sexual relations between a married person and someone other than the spouse. Written or customary prohibitions or taboos against adultery constitute ... [3 related articles]
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Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her legal partner. It is one factor that may prove `irretrievable breakdown` of marriage in actions for...
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Origin: L. Adulterium. See Advoutry. ... 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. ... It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterise...
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n. it denotes the wealth and property which a deceased person owned at the time of his/her death and not at the time of writing a will.
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This term refers to sexual intercourse by a married person outside of the marriage. In some areas this may also be grounds for divorce or adversely affect the offender's case.
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could be prosecuted in church courts; became, for a brief period during the *Interregnum, a *felony
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A·dul'ter·y noun ;
plural Adulteries [ Latin
adulterium . See
Advoutry .]
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 ...
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Voluntary sexual relations between a married person and another person who is not their married spouse. A legal ground for divorce in most countries.
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Consensual sexual relations by a married person with someone other than the person's spouse. In states that still allow fault grounds for divorce, adultery is always sufficient grounds for a divorce. In addition, some states factor in adultery when dividing property between divorcing spouses.
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Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with any other than the offender's husband or wife; when committed between two married persons, the offence is called double, and when between a married and single person, single adultery. The Mosaic, Greek, and early Roman law only recognized the offence when a married woman was the ...
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[
n] - extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
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adultery 1. Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations. 2. Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse. 3. Historically, an act of conjugal infidelity; an adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a...
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Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not the spouse, while the marriage is still valid. This is a common fact relied on for divorce
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criminal conversation noun extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; `adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce`
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Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her legal partner
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voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse.
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