adultery

adultery has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
• n.. Adulteration; corruption.
• n.. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
• n.. Faithlessness in religion.
• n.. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
• n.. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
• n.. Injury; degradation; ruin.
• n.. extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"