Adultery: alternatives and connections

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Adultery

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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Adulterer 74% connected

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

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Adulterer 74% connected

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

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Adulterous 74% connected

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.

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Adulterous 74% connected

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.

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Fornication 92% connected

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by l…

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