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wedbreach en · NOUN

Etymology

From wed + breach. Compare English spousebreach (“adultery”), Old English ǣwbryċe (“adultery”).

Meanings

1. (dialectal, rare, uncountable) Adultery.
   • […] it wasn't wedbreach he minded, that was all in the way o'life; but as for Hiram and hisn, he'd as soon feed a hole in hell as fill their empty stomachs. 1897, Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, Love in the Backwoods:

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