Antonyms for adulterer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-duhl-ter-er
Phonetic Transcription : əˈdʌl tər ər


Definition of adulterer

Origin :
  • early 15c., earlier avouter (c.1300), avoutrer (late 14c.), agent noun from obsolete verb adulter "commit adultery; adulterate" (late 14c.), from Latin adulterare "to corrupt" (see adulteration).
  • As in philanderer : noun person who has many love affairs
  • As in lady-killer : noun philanderer
Example sentences :
  • He was a spendthrift, he was an adulterer, he gambled, he equivocated.
  • Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude
  • It rejoiced to see the wife deceive the husband, and the adulterer fool him.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • A man who has a wife and yet lives with another woman is an adulterer.
  • Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 » by Various
  • The adulterer when taken in delicto is sometimes punished by death.
  • Extract from : « Ifugao Law » by R. F. Burton
  • So, the adulterer, though a crime in law, the children are like the husband.
  • Extract from : « Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) » by John Aubrey
  • Hence the seducer and adulterer only inquire, "What's the damage?"
  • Extract from : « Comic Arithmetic » by Anonymous
  • What satisfaction is to be made by a fornicator or adulterer?
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
  • He is an adulterer and a "shape-shifter," like all medicine-men and savage sorcerers.
  • Extract from : « Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Andrew Lang
  • He means, 'Thou shalt not be an adulterer, nor corrupter, nor like them that are such.'
  • Extract from : « Frauds and Follies of the Fathers » by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
  • The thief and the adulterer will take the season of secrecy and darkness.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) » by Richard Baxter

Synonyms for adulterer

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