Helen Fenton

Adultery: Definition and part of speech

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Adultery

  1. n. Injury; degradation; ruin.
  2. 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.
  3. n. Adulteration; corruption.
  4. n. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
  5. n. Faithlessness in religion.
  6. n. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
  7. n. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adulterous: Definition and part of speech

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Adulterous

  1. a. Characterized by adulteration; spurious.
  2. a. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adulterine: Definition and part of speech

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Adulterine

  1. n. An illegitimate child.
  2. a. Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adulterer: Definition and part of speech

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Adulterer

  1. n. A man who violates his religious covenant.
  2. n. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.