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fornications

fornications is the plural of fornication.

Meaning of fornication

Noun

fornication (countable and uncountable, plural fornications)

  1. Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.
    • FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed—
      BARABAS. Fornication: but that was in another country;
      And besides, the wench is dead.c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published...
  2. (colloquial) Sexual intercourse in general; sex.
    • For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed during fornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter […]2012, Geoffrey Kennell, The Upper Crust, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 185

Questions about fornications

What is fornications the plural of?
Fornications is the plural of fornication.

Words near fornications in the dictionary

  1. fornicate gyruses
  2. fornicated
  3. fornicates
  4. fornicating
  5. fornication
  6. fornications
  7. fornicative
  8. fornicator
  9. fornicatoria
  10. fornicatorium
  11. fornicatoriums

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