adulterer
[uh-duhl-ter-er]
- a person who commits adultery.
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Origin of adulterer
1350–1400; earlier adulter adulterer (< Latin, back formation from adulterāre to defile; see adulterate) + -er1; replacing Middle English avouter, avoutrer < Old French < Latin
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Contemporary Examples
By the time of this third episode of Season 1, we were well aware of Don as a liar, cad, and adulterer.
The 10 Most Essential TV Episodes From ‘Sopranos,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ and MoreBrett Martin
June 30, 2013
Suppose that I want to know if I am about to be caught as an adulterer, which is question 100.
Historical Examples
He was a spendthrift, he was an adulterer, he gambled, he equivocated.
Short Studies on Great SubjectsJames Anthony Froude
It rejoiced to see the wife deceive the husband, and the adulterer fool him.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
A man who has a wife and yet lives with another woman is an adulterer.
The adulterer when taken in delicto is sometimes punished by death.
Ifugao LawR. F. Burton
So, the adulterer, though a crime in law, the children are like the husband.
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2)John Aubrey
adulterer
- a person who has committed adultery
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Word Origin
C16: originally also adulter, from Latin adulter, back formation from adulterāre to adulterate
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Word Origin and History for adulterer
n.
early 15c., earlier avouter (c.1300), avoutrer (late 14c.), agent noun from obsolete verb adulter "commit adultery; adulterate" (late 14c.), from Latin adulterare "to corrupt" (see adulteration).
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