adulterousness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /əˈdʌltəɹəsnəs/
Etymology
Etymology tree English adulterous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English adulterousness From adulterous + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A state of being adulterous.
And once she had to sit one Sunday in the stocks in Nurmo church for the entire church service, on account of her terrible adulterousness, and the whole time she winked flirtatiously at the men.
2006, Laura Stark, The Magical Self, page 401:In the ensuing discussion he makes two extraordinary arguments, the first linking the chastity of Americans with their political freedom and the adulterousness of Europeans with their political disorders […]
2013, Christopher Nadon, Enlightenment and Secularism, page 206:It is, however, apparent that Joyce made this adulterousness or pseudo-adulterousness a persistent and structurally significant element in his novel […]
1988, Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality, page 21:
Translations (3)
pl pozamałżeńskość (state of being adulterous) · nl overspeligheid (state of being adulterous) · pl cudzołożność (state of being adulterous)