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adulteress

/uh-duhl-ter-is, -tris/US // əˈdʌl tər ɪs, -trɪs //UK // (əˈdʌltərəs) //

奸夫淫妇,淫妇,姘妇,淫妇人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman who commits adultery.

Examples

  • This is at least better than the Code of Hammurabi, which considered the rape victim an adulteress.

  • When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.

  • By definition, of course, a cuckold is the “husband of an adulteress.”

  • The prophet is commanded again to love an adulteress; to signify God's love to the synagogue.

  • But I have no difficulty in recognising in her the everlasting would-be adulteress, of whom our drama has made such abuse.

  • Has he not run too great a risk in confiding the education of a pure-minded girl to an adulteress?

  • Whatever may be the punishment of the adulteress, I merit it.

  • He saw then that it was for this he had been led to marry a woman who turned out a gross adulteress.