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# adultery

«adultery» in Mova's school dictionary: **When a married person has a loving, romantic or sexual…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (adultery; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible, church, law) When a married person has a loving, romantic or sexual relationship with someone who is not their husband or wife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#m1)

2) (Bible) One of the sins named in the Ten Commandments: "You shall not commit adultery." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in Bible lessons and religious education as one of the Ten Commandments, and in adult life as a reason for divorce. It tells the reader that a marriage promise has been broken. Christians believe marriage is a lifelong promise of faithfulness. Phrases: commit adultery, the commandment against adultery.

### examples

- The seventh commandment says, "You shall not commit adultery." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x1)
- The teacher explained that adultery means breaking the promise of marriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x2)
- In the story, the king's adultery brought great trouble to his family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x3)
- Many religions teach that adultery is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x4)
- Adultery can be one reason a marriage ends in divorce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x5)
- The Bible tells how King David committed adultery and later was sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x6)
- The vicar spoke about faithfulness and the harm adultery causes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no plural. The verb phrase is "commit adultery". A person who does it is an adulterer. It has nothing to do with "adult" meaning grown-up in the ordinary sense, although the words look alike. A serious, grown-up topic; talk about it respectfully.

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt not commit adultery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.567/)
- [Neither shalt thou commit adultery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.179/)
- [Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.344/)
- [Then said I of her that was worn out by adulteries: Still they commit harlotries with her, even her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.614/)
- [Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.41/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adultery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adultery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.