adulteress
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- noun
- /əˈdʌltərəs/
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adúltera
- The adulteress was publicly shamed for her actions, which broke the trust in her marriage.
And he says, and I renounce my wife as an adulteress.
- And he says, and I renounce my wife as an adulteress.
Examples
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An adulteress, sire.
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In ancient cultures, an adulteress could face severe consequences for her betrayal.
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Sure, she was an adulteress.
Fiction book (1997) -
I refused to believe she was an adulteress.
Fiction book (1991) -
My favorite parable in the Bible is about the adulteress who was caught in the act.
Blog text (12) -
What they referred to was the old way of punishing an adulteress.
Fiction book (1993) -
Here was a wife who'd committed adultery; she was an adulteress.
Fiction book (1997) -
- She's an adulteress.
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Monogamy for women is enforced by strictures on movement and association with men and social disapproval of adulteresses.
Academic text (1993) -
The novel portrays an adulteress who struggles with the moral implications of her choices.
Synonyms
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A married person who has sex with someone who is not their husband or wife
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A woman who has sex with someone she is not married to
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An old insulting word for a woman who is unfaithful
Antonyms
How Faithful
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
adulteress = adulterer (transparent) = adulter + ess
The word is transparently formed by adding the feminine suffix '-ess' to 'adulterer'.
Etymology
Adulteress comes from adultery plus the ending -ess. A helpful way to remember adultery is that it has the root alter, which means 'other' and shows up in words like alternate, so it names sex with an 'other' person, and -ess means 'woman', which is why an adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.