adulterer

[ uh-duhl-ter-er ]

noun

1. a person who commits adultery.

adulterer

/ əˈdʌltərə /

noun

1. a person who has committed adultery

Word History and Origins

Origin of adulterer¹

1350–1400; earlier adulter adulterer (< Latin, back formation from adulterāre to defile; adulterate ) + -er ¹; replacing Middle English avouter, avoutrer < Old French < Latin

Word History and Origins

Origin of adulterer¹

C16: originally also adulter, from Latin adulter, back formation from adulterāre to adulterate

Example Sentences

By the time of this third episode of Season 1, we were well aware of Don as a liar, cad, and adulterer.

From The Daily Beast

South Carolina evangelical voters cast their ballots overwhelmingly for a thrice-married admitted adulterer.

From The Daily Beast

Newt is a particularly weak adulterer, the kind who has to have a replacement wife firmly in place before dropping the prior one.

From The Daily Beast

How does one make an alleged adulterer and notoriously bad tipper seem sympathetic?

From The Daily Beast

Suppose that I want to know if I am about to be caught as an adulterer, which is question 100.

From The Daily Beast

But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.

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There he is sued by the first wife for support, moreover, by the laws of New York he is an adulterer.

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Agamemnon, at his return from the Trojan wars, was slain by Ægysthus, the adulterer of Clytemnestra.

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What law and what judge imputes a like criminality to the fornicator as to the adulterer?

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Can any human being know and decide who is in heart an adulterer, and who a conjugial partner?

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