- plural of adultery.
Example Sentences
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Marry Me: 'It crossed my mind to keep running totals of the divorces, separations, adulteries, sexual humiliations, maimings, deaths and thwarted hopes that these tiny stories compass.'
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013
Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Chastity cannot be predicated of those who abstain from adulteries only for various external reasons.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel