intercourse
noun
sexual intercourse, especially coitus.
intercourses
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pluralof intercourse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Happy love restored her at once to her natural mood, lulling her to the deepest rest when she rested, and rendering her free and self-possessed in all the employments and intercourses of life.
From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.
From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg
In his intercourses with the queen of Scots as ambassador from Elizabeth, he had already shown himself her zealous partisan.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
When I am silent upon a matter occurring in the usual intercourses of life where I might speak, nay, where we will suppose I ought to speak, I am at least guilty of dissimulation only.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
In all the intercourses of her family, since the first rough usage which she remembered, there had never been anything sweet or gracious.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
