Adulteries [noun]

The Army Reserve has opened an investigation into whether Cunningham engaged improperly with a subordinate’s family, in possible violation of the rules concerning adultery under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Adultery is a cause recognized in all of them, for which an absolute divorce can be granted.

We owe it neither to the Syriac tongue nor to the Hebrew, a jargon of the Syriac, in which adultery is called niuph.

The women of Lacedæmon, we are told, knew neither confession nor adultery.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

The Lacedæmonians, therefore, had good reason for saying that adultery was impossible among them.

But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Witness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.

And he said unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

It signifies a state of depravity,—a quality, and not an act,—and never can be properly translated by "adultery" or "fornication."