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adultery
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[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
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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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