Adultery
Adultery (also called philandery, anglicised from Latin adulterium) is sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than the spouse. Religious and legal interpretations of what constitutes adultery vary widely.
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Famous quotes containing the word adultery:
“Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.”
—John Grigg (b. 1924)
“Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:28.
From the Sermon on the Mount.
“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)