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Definition of Adultress
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adultress
Literary usage of Adultress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, William Maunsell Hennessy, Robert Atkinson (1901)
"If it is an adultress he takes, and he could have got a ... of an adultress is
paid to him, and the ' smacht ' of a ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell (1885)
"... and Johnson, assuming this to be true, stigmatises her with indignation, as "
the wretch who had, without scruple, proclaimed herself an adultress. ..."
3. A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest by Landseer, John (1834)
"JESUS CHRIST PARDONING THE HEBREW adultress. REMBRANDT. FROM Rembrandt's " Woman
Bathing," we turn with a feeling nearly allied to amazement at the ..."
4. "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation": Its Argument Examined and Exposed by Samuel Richard Bosanquet (1845)
"Without this, philosophy is a wanton and deformed adultress. Before giving an
outline of the scheme and theory which is elaborated in the " Vestiges of ..."
5. Lectures and Essays by James William Gilbart (1865)
"Our law, too, appears imperfect, as it inflicts no punishment on the adultress,
although it may be that she is the most guilty party. ..."
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