adulterousness

English

Etymology

adulterous +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹəsnəs/
• Hyphenation: adul‧ter‧ous‧ness

Noun

adulterousness (uncountable)

1. A state of being adulterous.
   • 1988, Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality, page 21:

     It is, however, apparent that Joyce made this adulterousness or pseudo-adulterousness a persistent and structurally significant element in his novel […]

   • 2006, Laura Stark, The Magical Self, page 401:

     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.

   • 2013, Christopher Nadon, Enlightenment and Secularism, page 206:

     In 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 […]