adultery
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 →
2) (Bible) One of the sins named in the Ten Commandments: "You shall not commit adultery." tree →
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 →
- The teacher explained that adultery means breaking the promise of marriage. tree →
- In the story, the king's adultery brought great trouble to his family. tree →
- Many religions teach that adultery is wrong. tree →
- Adultery can be one reason a marriage ends in divorce. tree →
- The Bible tells how King David committed adultery and later was sorry. tree →
- The vicar spoke about faithfulness and the harm adultery causes. tree →
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.
- Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —
- Then said I of her that was worn out by adulteries: Still they commit harlotries with her, even her.
- Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «adultery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.