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発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹi/

名詞

adultery (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 adulteries)

1. (biblical, 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.

   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, De Cive:

     So also that copulation which in one City is Matrimony, in another will be judged Adultery.

   • 2009, Garner's Modern American Usage‎^[1], page 22:

     Under modern statutory law, some courts hold that the unmarried participant isn't guilty of adultery (that only the married participant is)

2. (biblical, broadly) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the sixth/seventh commandment; sinful sexual behavior as a category.

   Thou shalt not commit adultery.

3. (biblical) Faithlessness in religion.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 3:9:

     And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

4. (obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
5. (ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
6. (political economy) Adulteration; corruption.
7. (obsolete) Injury; degradation; ruin.
   • 1616, Ben Jonson, “Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists”, in Thomas Hodgkin, editor, The Works of Ben Jonson, published 1692, page 378:

     […] you might wrest the Caduceus out of my hand, to the adultery and spoil of Nature […]

同意語

• advowtry (廃れた用法)

下位語

• the English vice (adultery with domestic trappings)

派生語

• commit adultery

関連する語

Further reading

• “adultery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “adultery”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.