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:

    “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)

    “Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:28.

    From the Sermon on the Mount.