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adultress

adultress is the alternative form of adulteress.

Meaning of adulteress

Noun

adulteress (plural adulteresses)

  1. A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
    • And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:45

Forms of adultress

pluraladultresses

Questions about adultress

What is adultress the alternative form of?
Adultress is the alternative form of adulteress.

Words near adultress in the dictionary

  1. adultomorphism
  2. adultophile
  3. adultophiles
  4. adultophilia
  5. adultophilic
  6. adultress
  7. adultresses
  8. adultry
  9. adults
  10. adults in the room
  11. adultship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adultress (page history and authors); adulteress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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