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Adultery vs Cheating - What's the difference?

adultery | cheating |

As nouns the difference between adultery and cheating

is that adultery is sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse while cheating is an act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.

As a verb cheating is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective cheating is

unsporting or underhand.

adultery

English

(wikipedia adultery)

Alternative forms

* advowtry (obsolete)

Noun

(adulteries)
  • Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
    • She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
  • (Bible) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
  • (Bible) Faithlessness in religion.
    • And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (King James Version)
  • (obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
  • (ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
  • (obsolete) adulteration; corruption
    • (Ben Jonson)
  • (obsolete) injury; degradation; ruin
  • * Ben Jonson
    • You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.

    Related terms

    * adulter * adulterate * adulterer * adulteress * adulterine * adulterise * adulterous

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    cheating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia cheating)
  • An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.
  • * Edward Bulwer Lytton
    • the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unsporting or underhand.
  • Unfaithful or adulterous.

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