adultery

Meaning

Noun

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Origin

  • From the Old French scholarly form adultere (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), from Latin adulterium, from adulter. Replaced the older form avoutrie, from the popular Old French forms avouterie or aoulterie. Compare French adultère. Displaced Old English ǣwbryċe. Not related to adult.

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