Adulterous vs Adulterousness - What's the difference?
adulterous | adulterousness |
A state of being adulterous.
* 1988 , Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality (page 21)
* 2006 , Laura Stark, The Magical Self (page 401)
* 2013 , Christopher Nadon, Enlightenment and Secularism (page 206)
As an adjective adulterous
is of, or characterized by adultery.As a noun adulterousness is
a state of being adulterous.adulterousness
English
Noun
(-)- It is, however, apparent that Joyce made this adulterousness or pseudo-adulterousness a persistent and structurally significant element in his novel
- 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.
- 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