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Definition of Adulteress
1. Noun. A woman adulterer.
Generic synonyms: Adulterer, Fornicator
Definition of Adulteress
1. n. A woman who commits adultery.
Definition of Adulteress
1. Noun. A woman or girl who commits adultery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adulteress
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Medical Definition of Adulteress
1. 1. A woman who commits adultery. 2. A woman who violates her religious engagements. Origin: Fem. From L. Adulter. Cf. Advoutress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulteress
Literary usage of Adulteress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Theological Studies (1903)
"OF the Pericope of the adulteress {John vii 53-viii n) we read in Westcott and
Hört's Greek Testament, that/« the whole range of Greek patristic literature ..."
2. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Romans by Albert Barnes (1851)
"3 So then, if, while * her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she
shall be called an adulteress : but if her husband be dead, she is free from ..."
3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... guilty of adultery [guilty of adultery adulteress, ... s. act of violating of
an adulteress ..."
4. Essays on the Punishment of Death by Charles Spear (1845)
"... the Hottentots—All sympathy for the criminal— Example of Jesus—adulteress—Suicide
of Colt—Criminals beyond moral influences—Washing Ionian movement. ..."
5. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"... and the adulteress was by the same sentence punished with thirty lashes.
* The privation of the right of property, and of the power of contracting, ..."
6. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"If, on. the contrary, he had forbidden them to stone the adulteress, from a love
of clemency, they would have accused him of being an enemy to the law and ..."
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