adultery

Definitions


[əˈdʌlt(ə)ri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse
(e.g: she was committing adultery with a much younger man)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from the obsolete noun adulter, from Latin adulter ‘adulterer’, replacing an earlier form avoutrie, from Anglo-Norman French avouterie




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