Among many peoples who in other cases prohibit self-redress, an adulterer and an adulteress may be put to death by the aggrieved husband, especially if they be caught flagrante delicto.
According to a law of Cnut, an adulteressshall have her nose and ears cut off.
The Kurile Islanders, says Krasheninnikoff, have an extraordinary way of punishing adultery: the husband of the adulteress challenges the adulterer to a combat.
But Zoe soon justified the Roman maxim, that every adulteressis capable of poisoning her husband; and the death of Romanus was instantly followed by the scandalous marriage and elevation of Michael the Fourth.
His sons punished the adulteress with burning and took away from her paramour the privilege of appeal, but this seems to have been only a case of extraordinary and temporary legislation.
Fornication and adultery are rare, the adulteress is ruthlessly punished; men and maidens marry late.
When thou pleadest with God not to take from thee something to which thou cleavest by desire, it is as if an adulteress caught by her husband in the act, should not ask pardon for her crime, but beg him not to interrupt her pleasure.
Interesting evidence of the fact that "Jesus did many other signs which are not written" in our accepted gospels is found in the story of his dealing with an adulteress whom the Pharisees brought to him for judgment (John vii.
If it were proved that she was a bad wife, she was treated as an adulteress and drowned.
The Pope who had Christ's mother painted with the features of the adulteress Giulia Farnese believed that he himself enjoyed the special protection of the Virgin.
Examples of trickery are the artful traps prepared for Our Lord by the Pharisees when with apparent respect they asked His views about the condemnation of the adulteress (John, viii.
It is this that Our Lord reprobated in the Pharisees, who, although guilty of many and grave crimes, wished to put to death anadulteress in order that they themselves might thus shine as immaculate.
Within a week my state had become such that I could have cried out in mid Union Street at noon: 'Look at me with your dead eyes, you dead who have omitted to get buried, I am among you, and I am an adulteress in spirit!
The doctors of canon law answer me that this history of the adulteress is related only in the Gospel of St. John, that it was not inserted there until later.
When the kings wanted to repudiate a wife who was an adulteress according to Jesus Christ's law, they could not succeed; it was necessary to find ridiculous pretexts.
The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
The mouth of an adulteressis a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
If you can find one wise person, if you can find one single principal virtue by which the adulteress is condemned, I am wrong.
But if in all the book there is not a person who makes her bow her head, there is not an idea, a line, by virtue of which the adulteress is scourged, it is I who am right, and the book is immoral!
In its name the adulteress is stigmatized, condemned, not because her act is an imprudence, exposing her to disillusions and regrets, but because it is a crime against the family.
Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.
Of Aphrodite, adulteressthough she be, they say that she is herself a goddess.
They represent this weeping and wailing adulteress as a goddess.
P: The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater.
It was so judged by the high court of the Vicar, although it was dealing with a murder committed after two years, and by craft, by two brothers upon the adulteress in the presence of her sister's cousin.
And in the circumstances that a sentence given against an adulterer can do no injury to the adulteress when she has not been cited is the text.
But the opportunity to kill an adulteress is not to be so taken that a violent death may be visited upon her with all security and without any risk.
And would he not even have had his wife declared an adulteress for the sake of gaining the dowry?
Count Guido did the killing in their own home, that the adulteress and her parents, who were aware of her crime, might find out that no place nor refuge whatsoever was safe from and impenetrable by one whose honour had been wounded.
He was brazen enough to demand, with a new complaint, that his wife should be declared an adulteress and that to him, according to law, should pass all the gain of the dowry.
What efforts, what exclamations, what diligence did Franceschini and Abate Paolo, his brother, not use to have the wife declared an adulteress and to gain the desired lucre?
Where the case was one of peculiar aggravation, the adulteress was hunted down by a number of infuriate demireps of her own sex, each armed with a club, a knife, or some other formidable weapon, and stabbed or beaten to death.
Nothing can be more absurd than our modern privilegia, our acts of parliament to break the bond between an adulteress and her husband.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adulteress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
