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n. - A woman who has an extramarital relationship while being married.

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  • But Zoe soon justified the Roman maxim, that every adulteress is capable of poisoning her husband; and the death of
  • The good bishop stated flatly that he couldn't send a child into the home of a public adulteress, which is what Liz was at the time.
  • But she loved strangers, and while I, her husband, was yet alive, she is called adulteress, and is not afraid to belong to another husband.
  • You'd kill a 2-year - old daughter if you were an adulteress?
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