Lexic.us

Definition of Adultery

1. Noun. Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations. "Adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"

Definition of Adultery

1. 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.

Definition of Adultery

1. Noun. Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adultery

1. voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse [n -TERIES]

Medical Definition of Adultery

1. 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 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. 3. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. Faithlessness in religion. 4. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. 5. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. 6. Injury; degradation; ruin. "You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature." (B. Jonson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adultery

Literary usage of Adultery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Fornication and adultery.—Fornication and adultery were not common-law crimes in England, nor, by the weight of authority, are they so in this country, ..."

2. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"The various forms of continuous and of open adultery and lascivious ... The simple adultery to be treated of in this chapter is not indictable at the common ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"The essential point was, the proof of adultery, which he considered to be established, and therefore, in a moral, constitutional, and religious point of ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1892)
"Other acts of adultery admissible, when. Where the fact of adultery is alleged to have been committed within a limited period of time, it is not necessary ..."

5. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"We shall take up in order, then: A. adultery; B. Rape and indecent assault upon adults; C. Rape and indecent assault upon children. A. adultery. ..."

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