Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who commits adultery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman guilty of adultery. Formerly also spelled
adultress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who commits adultery.
- noun (Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman orgirl who commitsadultery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman adulterer
Etymologies
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Examples
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The sin of the adulteress is not the less sinful for the gaiety of the adulterer.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The adulteress is here called the strange woman, because no man that has any wisdom or goodness in him will have any acquaintance with her; she is to be shunned by every Israelite as if she were a heathen, and a stranger to that sacred commonwealth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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But Zoe soon justified the Roman maxim, that every adulteress is capable of poisoning her husband; and the death of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The good bishop stated flatly that he couldn't send a child into the home of a public adulteress, which is what Liz was at the time.
random thoughts on a wednesday night Dymphna 2006
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The good bishop stated flatly that he couldn't send a child into the home of a public adulteress, which is what Liz was at the time.
Archive 2006-10-01 Dymphna 2006
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The Lord said, "If any one leave [2720] his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, he causeth her to commit adultery;" [2721] thus, by calling her adulteress, He excludes her from intercourse with another man.
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For how can the man being guilty, as having caused adultery, and the woman, go without blame, when she is called adulteress by the Lord for having intercourse with another man?
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But she loved strangers, and while I, her husband, was yet alive, she is called adulteress, and is not afraid to belong to another husband.
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Other examples of this tendency toward enforcing the moral order through the criminal justice system include persecution of those showing the Robert Maplethorpe art exhibit, the prosecution of a female "adulteress" in Wisconsin, proposed laws against drinking that would make it a felony for a parent to serve their 20 year old offspring a drink in the privacy of their own home (in Illinois), the clients of prostitutes in Wisconsin potentially liable to face confiscation of their vehicle if they invite the prostitute into their car ... the list goes on.
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Judgment had already been made against this adulteress. because everyone sins, another point heyzeus made to everyone in the crowd but you were too illiterate to read? bitblt says:
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