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/əˈdʌltəɹi/ · noun
(strictly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry.
She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
So also that copulation which in one City is Matrimony, in another will be judged Adultery.
Under modern statutory law, some courts hold that the unmarried participant isn't guilty of adultery (that only the married participant is)
Ironically, the detergent industry-sponsored "soap operas" that are central to modern afternoon television programming promise (mostly) female viewers both relief from drudgery and escape into the dramatic, crisis-filled on-air world of (laundryless) marriages, adulteries, and other relationships.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
[…] you might wrest the Caduceus out of my hand, to the adultery and spoil of Nature […]
Use adultery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adultery means (strictly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry.
Common synonyms include advowtry, fornication, criminal conversation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
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