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Adulteress   Listen
noun
Adulteress  n.  
1.
A woman who commits adultery.
2.
(Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.






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"Adulteress" Quotes from Famous Books



... first time that she ever discovered a sense of shame, and on this occasion the power of wit was very conspicuous; the wretch who had, without scruple, proclaimed herself an adulteress, and who had first endeavoured to starve her son, then to transport him, and afterwards to hang him, was not able to bear the representation of her own conduct, but fled from reproach, though she felt no pain from guilt, and left Bath in the utmost haste to shelter herself among the crowds of ...
— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson

... next the executioner resembles the Adrastus in the Giovanelli figures, and the young man stooping forward next to Solomon recurs in the "Three Ages," in the Pitti, which Morelli considered to be by Giorgione. The most obvious resemblances, however, are to be found in the Glasgow "Adulteress before Christ," a work which several modern critics assign to Cariani, although Dr. Bode, Sir Walter Armstrong, and others, maintain it to be a real Giorgione. Consistently enough, those who believe in Cariani's authorship in the one case, assert it in the other,[33] and as ...
— Giorgione • Herbert Cook

... and fourpence; a ravisher forfeits eight shillings and fourpence; an adulterer eight shillings and fourpence; an adultress the same. The king has the adulterer, the bishop the adulteress." ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas



Words linked to "Adulteress" :   adulterer, trollop, fornicatress, hussy, strumpet, slut, jade, loose woman



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