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Fornication

noun
1.
Voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other.
2.
Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations.  Synonyms: adultery, criminal conversation.





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"Fornication" Quotes from Famous Books



... proved to a demonstration, that such a change would be a mean of annihilating, absolutely annihilating, four or five very atrocious and capital sins.—Rapes, vulgarly so called; adultery, and fornication; nor would polygamy be panted after. Frequently would it prevent murders and duelling; hardly any such thing as jealousy (the cause of shocking violences) would be heard of: and hypocrisy between man and wife be banished the bosoms ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson


Words linked to "Fornication" :   free love, fornicate, extramarital sex


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