Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, inclined to, or marked by adultery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characterized by adultery; given to adultery.
- Illicit: said of combinations or relations of any kind.
- Spurious; corrupt; adulterated: as, “forged and adulterous stuff,” Casaubon, Of Credulity (trans.), p. 297.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.
- adjective obsolete, obsolete Characterized by adulteration; spurious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or characterized by
adultery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not faithful to a spouse or lover
- adjective characterized by adultery
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Examples
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The term adulterous, I conceive, may chiefly relate to the Jews, who being nationally espoused to God by covenant, every sin of theirs was in a peculiar manner spiritual adultery.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Since we conservative Christians (cCs) are quick to question the belief of a person who says they are a Christian but who readily and consciously engages in adulterous behavior, one should not be surprise if cCs question the belief of one who engages in homosexual behavior.
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In particular, engaging in adulterous/cheating relationship will result in a disturbed and an unfocused mind, vulnerable to bribery as one will be more intent to hide the wrong relationship.
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The book also documents the family feud over the poet's brother's long-term adulterous affair which divided the family, and after Emily Dickinson's death, extended into a feud over her legacy and the publication of her poems.
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The book is also about Dickinson's brother's long-term adulterous affair, which led to a feud within the family that carried over into a fight over Emily Dickinson's poems and her legacy after her death.
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Author of the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment, Rep. Henry Hyde pleaded "youthful indiscretion" regarding his long-term adulterous affair in his '40s.
Michele Swenson: Male Entitlement: Church & State Preserve Male Prerogatives, Female Punishments 2010
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The leadership of the family values Right is hopelessly compromised by its long-term adulterous affair with the Republican Party.
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At dusk on July 17, 1996, on a deserted Long Island beach, a man and a woman engage in adulterous sex in front of a video camera.
Night Fall: Summary and book reviews of Night Fall by Nelson DeMille. 2004
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That nation and generation might be called adulterous literally; for what else, I beseech you, was their irreligious polygamy than continual adultery?
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Here evil characterized as adulterous has actually come to a place of leadership in the Church.
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