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Meanings of fornication in English
Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations.
Synonyms
Examples for "adultery"
Examples for "adultery"
1
In the Uniform Code of Military Justice, adultery's still considered a crime.
2
I believe that I've been committing adultery for the last sixteen years.
3
Why couldn't the court's servants be honest enough to simply say adultery?
4
He said looking at pictures was a lesser sin than committing adultery.
5
The scribes and Pharisees brought in a woman they accused of adultery.
1
Surely criminal conversation could be interpreted as something else, just as infidelity required more than words.
2
His lawyers, however, attempted to prove criminal conversation, in hopes of extorting money from my lover.
3
The report went also, that Antipater had criminal conversation with Pheroras's wife, and that they were brought together by Antipater's mother.
4
I have seen him do it; I have caught him in criminal conversation with a pen and a sheet of paper; bottle at hand-
5
Salome also added somewhat further against Joseph, though it was no more than a calumny, that he had often had criminal conversation with Mariamne.
Usage of fornication in English
1
Therefore it seems that fornication is unfittingly reckoned a species of lust.
2
Drunken revelry, music and fornication with Dionysus in the middle of it.
3
All men will naturally commit fornication, as all men will naturally steal.
4
There is as much fornication and adultery among farmers as amongst noblemen.'
5
Lust, fornication, violence against women, selfish dissipation, deception in love and friendship.
6
She used words like 'fornication' and 'sin' and 'infantile depravity' and 'moral bankruptcy.'
7
The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain.
8
Objection 1: It would seem that simple fornication is not a mortal sin.
9
Eckma in the act of fornication was beginning to tire him.
10
Objection 1: It would seem that fornication is the most grievous of sins.
11
Therefore it seems that fornication is the most grievous of sins.
12
I am leaving this city of slaves, this Bagdad of fornication.
13
Wherefore also spiritual sins are more against Christ than fornication is.
14
Such sins he usually calls by their proper names, as adultery, fornication, etc.
15
Therefore seduction should not be reckoned a species of lust, distinct from fornication.
16
They would rise above fornication as sanctity lay with the chaste.
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Translations for fornication
Portuguese
Catalan
Fornication through the time
Fornication across language varieties
United Kingdom
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