fornicator

American  

[fawr-ni-key-ter] / ˈfɔr nɪˌkeɪ tər /

noun

1. a person who has sexual intercourse with someone to whom they are not married.

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Etymology

Origin of fornicator

First recorded in 1350–1400; from Late Latin fornicātor, from fornicāt(us) “consorted” (past participle of fornicārī “to consort with prostitutes”; fornicate ¹ ( def. ) ) + -or -or ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Which thing Paule puttith in practise when he biddith / that the Corinthians shuld excommunicat the fornicator / les that a litill leauẽ shuld soure the whole lumpe of dowe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

Cases of discipline decided by Church rulers, 223 Case of the Corinthian fornicator, ib.

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)

If his descendants cannot point to his statue over a library, they have not the mortification of hearing him daily accused of having been a fornicator, a hypocrite, and an infidel.”

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George