adulterer

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See also: adultérer and adulterêr

English

Etymology

From adulter +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

adulterer (plural adulterers)

  2. (broadly) One who commits adultery.
    Synonyms: cheater; see also Thesaurus:libertine
    2. (law, strictly) A spouse who has sex with a non-spouse.
      Coordinate term: fornicator
    • 2009, Garner's Modern American Usage‎, page 22:
      Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator.
    2. (nonlegal, loosely) Someone who cheats on their spouse or monogamous significant other.
    4. A male adulterer specifically.
      Coordinate term: adulteress (female counterpart)
      • 2005, The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness‎, page 140:
        I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife.
      • 2016, Freedom From The Sin of Adultery And Fornication‎, page 110:
        The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Translations

Latin

Verb

adulterer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adulterō
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