adulterer


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a·dul·ter·er

 (ə-dŭl′tər-ər)
n.
One who commits adultery.
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adulterer

(əˈdʌltərə)
n
a person who has committed adultery
[C16: originally also adulter, from Latin adulter, back formation from adulterāre to adulterate]
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a•dul•ter•er

(əˈdʌl tər ər)

n.
one who commits adultery.
[1350–1400]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.adulterer - someone who commits adultery or fornicationadulterer - someone who commits adultery or fornication
debauchee, libertine, rounder - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
wencher - someone who patronizes prostitutes
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adulterer

adulteress
noun cheat (informal), love rat (Journalistic slang), love cheat (Journalistic slang), fornicator He was portrayed as an adulterer and a vain fool.
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Translations
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preljubnicapreljubnik

adulterer

[əˈdʌltərəʳ] Nadúltero m
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adulterer

[əˈdʌltərər] nadultère mf
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adulterer

nEhebrecher m
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adulterer

[əˈdʌltərəʳ] nadultero
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References in classic literature ?
We see the thief preaching against theft, and the adulterer against adultery.
In their gamesome but still serious way, one whispers to the other --"Jack, he's robbed a widow;" or,"Joe, do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or,"Harry lad, I guess he's the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom." Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person.
I am an adulterer, a murderer, a blasphemer, and a deceiver.'
The teams also recovered over 1000 kilograms unhygienic sugar, 450 Kgs adulterer milk,114 Kgs defective sweets and 35 liters expired drinks from different shops and destroyed them.
Under the draft provisions, a couple found by a court to have engaged in sexual intercourse outside a legal marriage shall be sentenced to stoning to death if the adulterer or adulteress is married.
Thibault Hutin, a 26-year-old French equestrian and estranged husband to Hingis, claims that his wife of nearly three years is a serial adulterer, the (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/tennis-star-martina-hingis-is-a-serial-adulterer-claims-estranged-husband-8702619.html) London Evening Standard reports.
Pressed about it during a question and answer, Santiago clarified that what they have in the Senate was a "serial adulterer."
Several years later, she married again, to secure a home for the child and herself, but sadly her husband was a serial adulterer, and she was eventually left penniless and deserted.
In time, Gallardo discovered that no one would talk to him and he was shunned completely, like a heretic or an adulterer in darker times that we thought we'd left behind.
This tax would also increase in direct proportion to the fame and influence of the adulterer. An unknown philanderer who gets caught in the act would be charged far less than an icon whose tale we had to watch every night for months.
The eBay ad reads: "Here are the ashes of my father, Kenneth Ireland, an adulterer who left a wife, two children and just pounds 17 in her pocket.
Jurors convicted serial adulterer Chenery-Wickens, of Duddleswell, near Uckfield, East Sussex, of murder following a trial lasting more than a month.