adultery 音标拼音: [əd'ʌltɚi]
n . 通奸
通奸
adultery n 1 :
extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations ; "
adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce " [
synonym : {
adultery }, {
criminal conversation }, {
fornication }]
Adultery \
A *
dul "
ter *
y \,
n .;
pl . {
Adulteries }. [
L .
adulterium .
See {
Advoutry }.]
1 .
The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed ;
sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife ,
or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband .
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1913 Webster ]
Note :
It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer .
The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator ,
the other being married .
In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes .
Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called {
double adultery };
between a married and an unmarried person , {
single adultery }.
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2 .
Adulteration ;
corruption . [
Obs .] --
B .
Jonson .
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3 . (
Script .)
(
a )
Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act ,
as forbidden by the seventh commandment .
(
b )
Faithlessness in religion . --
Jer .
iii .
9 .
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4 . (
Old Law )
The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery .
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5 . (
Eccl .)
The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop .
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6 .
Injury ;
degradation ;
ruin . [
Obs .]
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You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature . --
B .
Jonson .
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1913 Webster ]
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "
adultery ":
act of love ,
adulterous affair ,
affair ,
amour ,
aphrodisia ,
ass ,
balling ,
carnal knowledge ,
climax ,
cohabitation ,
coition ,
coitus ,
coitus interruptus ,
commerce ,
concubinage ,
congress ,
connection ,
copula ,
copulation ,
coupling ,
criminal conversation ,
cuckoldry ,
diddling ,
entanglement ,
eternal triangle ,
extracurricular sex ,
extramarital relations ,
flirtation ,
forbidden love ,
fornication ,
free love ,
free -
lovism ,
hanky -
panky ,
illicit love ,
incest ,
infidelity ,
intercourse ,
intimacy ,
intrigue ,
liaison ,
love affair ,
lovemaking ,
making it with ,
marital relations ,
marriage act ,
mating ,
meat ,
onanism ,
orgasm ,
ovum ,
pareunia ,
premarital relations ,
premarital sex ,
procreation ,
relations ,
romance ,
romantic tie ,
screwing ,
sex ,
sex act ,
sexual climax ,
sexual commerce ,
sexual congress ,
sexual intercourse ,
sexual relations ,
sexual union ,
sleeping with ,
sperm ,
triangle ,
unfaithfulness ,
venery Adultery conjugal infidelity .
An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman ,
and such a woman was an adulteress .
Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woman was fornication .
Adultery was regarded as a great social wrong ,
as well as a great sin .
The Mosaic law (
Num .
5 :
11 -
31 )
prescribed that the suspected wife should be tried by the ordeal of the "
water of jealousy ."
There is ,
however ,
no recorded instance of the application of this law .
In subsequent times the Rabbis made various regulations with the view of discovering the guilty party ,
and of bringing about a divorce .
It has been inferred from John 8 :
1 -
11 that this sin became very common during the age preceding the destruction of Jerusalem .
Idolatry ,
covetousness ,
and apostasy are spoken of as adultery spiritually (
Jer .
3 :
6 ,
8 ,
9 ;
Ezek .
16 :
32 ;
Hos .
1 :
2 :
3 ;
Rev .
2 :
22 ).
An apostate church is an adulteress (
Isa .
1 :
21 ;
Ezek .
23 :
4 ,
7 ,
37 ),
and the Jews are styled "
an adulterous generation "
(
Matt .
12 :
39 ). (
Comp .
Rev .
12 .)
ADULTERY ,
criminal law .
From ad and alter ,
another person ;
a criminal conversation ,
between a man married to another woman ,
and a woman married to another man ,
or a married and unmarried person .
The married person is guilty of adultery ,
the unmarried of fornication . (
q .
v .)
1 Yeates ,
6 ;
2 Dall .
124 ;
but see 2 Blackf .
318 .
2 .
The elements of this crime are ,
1st ,
that there shall be an unlawful carnal connexion ;
2dly ,
that the guilty party shall at the time be married ;
3dly ,
that he or she shall willingly commit the offence ;
for a woman who has been ravished against her will is not guilty of adultery .
Domat ,
Supp .
du Droit Public ,
liv .
3 ,
t .
10 ,
n .
13 .
3 .
The punishment of adultery ,
in the United States ,
generally ,
is fine and imprisonment .
4 .
In England it is left to the feeble hands of the ecclesiastical courts to punish this offence .
5 .
Adultery in one of the married persons is good cause for obtaining a divorce by the innocent partner .
See 1 Pick .
136 ;
8 Pick .
433 ;
9 Mass .
492 :
14 Pick .
518 ;
7 Greenl .
57 ;
8 Greenl .
75 ;
7 Conn .
267 10 Conn .
372 ;
6 Verm .
311 ;
2 Fairf .
391 4 S . &
R .
449 ;
5 Rand .
634 ;
6 Rand .
627 ;
8 S . &
R .
159 ;
2 Yeates ,
278 ,
466 ;
4 N .
H .
Rep .
501 ;
5 Day ,
149 ;
2 N . &
M .
167 .
6 .
As to proof of adultery ,
see 2 Greenl .
Sec .
40 ,
Marriage .
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