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Plural of adultery

regular plural

The plural of adultery is adulteries.

Forms of adultery

Singularadultery /əˈdʌltəɹi/
Pluraladulteries
Countablecountable and uncountable

Adulteries in a sentence

  • Other adulteries were noted in the interest of verisimilitude.1973, Gore Vidal, chapter 16, in Burr. From the entry verisimilitude

Meaning of adultery

  1. noun Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry.
  2. noun Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the sixth/seventh commandment; sinful sexual behavior as a category.
  3. noun Faithlessness in religion.

Full definition of adultery

Questions about the plural of adultery

What is the plural of adultery?
The plural of adultery is adulteries.
Is adultery countable?
Adultery is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adultery (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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