adulterine

[ uh-duhl-tuh-reen, -tuh-rahyn ]
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adjective
  1. characterized by adulteration; spurious.

  2. born of adultery.

  1. of or involving adultery.

Origin of adulterine

1
1535–45; <Latin adulterīnus, equivalent to adulter adulterer, counterfeiter (see adulterer) + -īnus-ine1

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British Dictionary definitions for adulterine

adulterine

/ (əˈdʌltərɪn, -ˌriːn, -ˌraɪn) /


adjective
  1. of or made by adulteration; fake

  2. conceived in adultery: an adulterine child

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