Word Meanings - ADULTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 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

Additional info about word: ADULTERY

The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 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. Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery. 2. Adulteration; corruption. B. Jonson. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. Faithlessness in religion. Jer. iii. 9.

Related words: (words related to ADULTERY)

• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• IMPOSSIBLE
  An impossibility. "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• IMPOSE
  A command; injunction. Shak.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 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
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• MARRIABLE
  Marriageable. Coleridge.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• VOLUNTARY
  A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service. (more info) 1. One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. Shak.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• MARRIER
  One who marries.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN