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adj. - Conceived from an affair.

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Usage examples (8)
  • The "adulterine" castles were destroyed, not quite so rapidly as Henry desired, but still with some energy.
  • He sent Stephen's mercenaries over the sea and completed the destruction of the 'adulterine castles.'
  • Certainly there are Carolingian cases of rebels 'castles being demolished, but these aren't adulterine castles in the later English sense, these are just castles that...
  • Sometimes we find a mound which seems to proclaim its position, but memory is silent, and the people of England, if the story of the chronicler be true, have to be grateful to...
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