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adultery
1. Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations.
2. Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse.
3. Historically, an act of conjugal infidelity; an adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woman was known as fornication.
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