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An adulteress is a married woman who has sex with a man who is not her husband. The word is old, sharp, and rather moralising: you meet it in the Bible, in old laws, and in older novels more than in ordinary talk. Today a newspaper would more often say she had an affair, or she committed adultery. There is a matching word for a man, adulterer, though actually English used to mark the woman with this special -ess form more readily than it marked the man. It is not a kind word, and you do not need it for daily conversation.
姦婦（書面、舊）；口語多說「有外遇的已婚女人」
組成From older English adulter (a person who commits adultery) + -ess (a woman). Later, people mostly heard it as the female pair of adulterer.
同家族的字
- adultererthe same act, said of a man, or of a person without marking gender
- adulterythe name of the act
- adulterousthe adjective for that kind of sex or relationship
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adulteressnoun
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A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
- And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.
- Do you know what he’s going to endure if he marries a woman the whole community thinks is an adulteress?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。