adulteress

noun

Etymology

From adulter (noun) + -ess. In later use typically apprehended as the female equivalent corresponding to adulterer instead.

  1. derived from adulter
  2. suffixed as adulteress — “adulter + ess

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

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