Adultery

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.

    Jesus.

    There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever (1912–1982)