Meanings
- uncountableA state of being adulterous.
It is, however, apparent that Joyce made this adulterousness or pseudo-adulterousness a persistent and structurally significant element in his novel […]
1988, Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality, page 212 more examples
And once she had to sit one Sunday in the stocks in Nurmo church for the entire church service, on account of her terrible adulterousness, and the whole time she winked flirtatiously at the men.
2006, Laura Stark, The Magical Self, page 401In the ensuing discussion he makes two extraordinary arguments, the first linking the chastity of Americans with their political freedom and the adulterousness of Europeans with their political disorders […]
2013, Christopher Nadon, Enlightenment and Secularism, page 206
Origin
Translations
Dutch overspeligheid
- overspeligheidstate of being adulterous
Polish cudzołożność, pozamałżeńskość
- cudzołożnośćstate of being adulterous
- pozamałżeńskośćstate of being adulterous
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adulterousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adulterousness
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