Definition of Avoutry

1. adultery [n AVOUTRIES] - See also: adultery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avoutry

avouchable
avouched
avoucher
avouchers
avouches
avouching
avouchment
avouchments
avoucht
avoure
avoures
avoutrer
avoutrers
avoutrie
avoutries
avoutry (current term)
avow
avowable
avowableness
avowably
avowal
avowals
avowance
avowances
avowant
avowants
avowed
avowed(a)
avowedly
avowedness

Literary usage of Avoutry

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

1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1876)
"230 avoutry, i. 175; iii. 151, &c. Away the mare, i. 57 A young man's darling, an old man's warling, prov., x. 303 BABYLON, i. ..."

2. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Alfred William Pollard (1903)
"Arctic, attribute, account. Astert, escape. avoutry, adultery. Bain, obedient. Battles, divisions of an army. Bear on hand, deceive. ..."

3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"OF. avouer, an avowal, prop. infin., to avow. avoutry, adultery. Fasten, Letters, no. 883 ; vol. iii, p. 317 ; Hicks- corner, in Hazlitt's Dodsley, i. 175. ..."

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