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• advoutry
• avowtry

語源

From Middle English avoutrie, from Old French avouterie, variant (perhaps influenced by vout, vut (“vow”)) of aouterie, aolterie, from Late Latin adulterium. Doublet of adultery, which replaced it in modern English.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ədˈvaʊtɹi/

名詞

advowtry (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 advowtries)

1. (obsolete, archaic) adultery
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 13

     Then he turned to me and said, "O mortal, we have it in our law that, when the wife committeth advowtry it is lawful for us to slay her."

関連する語

• advoutrer, avouterer, avoutrer
• advoutress