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Definition of Advoutry
1. n. Adultery.
Definition of Advoutry
1. avoutry [n ADVOUTRIES] - See also: avoutry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advoutry
Literary usage of Advoutry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith by William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831)
"Even so the consent of the heart with all other means that follow thereof, be as
well advoutry before God, as the deed itself. ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"Though body be kept close, within her heart advoutry lurks, 1' exclude it there's
no art." Argus with a hundred eyes cannot keep her, ..."
3. The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon gospels in parallel columns with the versions of by Ulfilas, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Joseph Bosworth, George Waring (1888)
"... my dom is trewe, 3 The scribes and Pharisee brought vnto hym a woman taken in
advoutry, and sett her in the middes, 4 And sayde vnto hym, Master, ..."
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