(n.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
Example Sentences:
(1) His father, George I, divorced his mother, the adulteress Sophia Dorothea, and locked her in a castle; the last time he saw her he was 11 years old.
(2) In Therese Raquin, Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of the Emile Zola novel, directed by Evan Cabnet, Keira Knightley plays an adulteress whose passionate affair comes to an unusually deadly end.
(3) In one especially gruesome case, Maryam Ayubi, another alleged adulteress, fainted while being ritually washed before her execution in 2001 and was stoned to death while strapped to a stretcher.
Adultery
Definition:
(n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
(n.) Adulteration; corruption.
(n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(n.) Faithlessness in religion.
(n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
(n.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
(n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Embarrassed by international condemnation of the stoning sentence, Iran has tried to distract attentions from Mohammadi Ashtiani's initial charge of adultery by introducing new charges against her and portraying her as a murderer who killed her husband.
(2) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
(3) "Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning [to death]," article 21 states.
(4) Official papers released at the Public Records Office in Kew last year explained how Mr Simpson covered for his wife's adultery and took responsibility for the failure of the marriage by arranging to be found with a woman in a bedroom of a hotel in Maidenhead.
(5) Last year a landmark law to prevent violence against women was pushed out of parliament, the quota of seats for women on provincial councils was cut, and a proposal to reintroduce stoning as a punishment for adultery – used more against women than men – put forward by the justice ministry.
(6) He filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery but the court ruled against him, with the controversial logic that there could have been no adultery because there is no such thing as sexual intercourse between women.
(7) Last night, Henri Brandman, who is representing Fielder-Civil, said in a statement: "I can confirm that I have been instructed to commence divorce proceedings on the grounds of Amy's adultery."
(8) The 46-year-old politician, who was a member of the Scottish parliament for eight years, was convicted of committing perjury when he convinced a libel jury in August 2006 that the Sunday tabloid had lied about his adultery and visits to a Manchester sex club.
(9) The semi-official Fars News Agency – mouthpiece of the regime – reported Lula's offer and for the first time said Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
(10) He also visited the Central Prison, where he found women imprisoned with their babies as they served one-year sentences for adultery because they were unmarried.
(11) Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been detained in Tabriz jail since 2006 and was sentenced to death on charges of adultery.
(12) Hamidi had been represented by human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has since been forced to flee Iran after bringing to international attention the case of another of his clients, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , a 43-year-old Iranian mother of two who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
(13) Their rare and spectacular characteristics have for long been considered as divine punishment for the sin of adultery or bestiality or on the other hand as a mark of fertility and a gift from God.
(14) In January last year Huhne was divorced by his wife, Vicky Price, because of his admitted adultery with Trimingham.
(15) We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now – people were the same then, too – that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
(16) Does she also withhold it from women who are imprisoned or stoned for adultery?
(17) The recent global day against the imminent stoning of Sakine Mohammadi-Ashtiani in Iran for adultery is an example of the outrage sparked by the brutality associated with sharia law's penal code.
(18) Those who indulge in premarital intercourse, adultery, and masturbation for personal satisfaction will find such experiences shallow.
(19) Unconscious mechanisms can intervene, such as fantasmatic adultery (through IAD) which reequilibrates the couple: the husband who brought the HIV has to be forgiven, or punished.
(20) "They think unmarried pregnant girls have committed adultery, but forget that it takes two ... And they think an educated woman is not a good wife."