FORNICATION

adultery, criminal conversation, fornication

(noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; “adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce”

fornication

(noun) voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

fornication (countable and uncountable, plural fornications)

(religion, law) Sexual intercourse by people who are not married, or which is considered illicit in another way.

Hyponym: adultery

(colloquial) Sexual intercourse in general; sex.

Synonyms

• see also copulation

Source: Wiktionary

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For`ni*ca"tion, n. Etym: [F. fornication, L. fornicatio.]

1. Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute. Whartyon.

2. (Script.) (a) Adultery. (b) Incest. (c) Idolatry.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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