Adultery
Adultery (also called philandery, anglicised from Latin adulterium) is sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than the spouse. Religious and legal interpretations of what constitutes adultery vary widely.
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Famous quotes containing the word adultery:
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:11.
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“Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.”
—John Grigg (b. 1924)
“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
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