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Definition of Adultresses
1. adultress [n] - See also: adultress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adultresses
Literary usage of Adultresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"Theodora's rise to glory was the outstanding achievement among those whom Prynne
called "branded whores and infamous adultresses. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"'The adultresses Funerali Day : in flaming, scorching, and consuming fire: or
the burning downe to ashes of Alice Clarke late of ..."
3. An Historical and Critical Dictionary by Pierre Bayle (1826)
"For Euripides was not so much distinguished by the name of woman-hater, for
introducing so many vicious women, so many sorceresses, adultresses, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"... complaisant beauty in want, chaste concubines, wicked Christians, respectable
adultresses, bigamy from duty: such are the marvellous combinations to ..."
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