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  • The analogy I'd give you would be the process of cultural influence Hawthorne describes in _The Scarlet Letter_: while the Puritan authorities tried to constrain Hester Prynne within their narrative as "Adulteress," her patient, consistent demeanor resulted in the town creating a new narrative within which she was "Able," or "Angel."

    Source: Hillary TV Ad Campaign Is Now 100% Negative In Most Pennsylvania Markets 2009

  • “On the Suspected Adulteress (Numbers 5: 11 – 31).”

    Legal-Religious Status of the Suspected Adulteress (Sotah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • Romanorum, of the Adulteress, the Abigail, and the Three Cocks, two of which crowed during the congress of the lady and her lover.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Adulteress, of course-but hoor, as well, or so I'm told.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • "Adulteress!" they screamed, and this time the voices were those of women.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • "Adulteress!" they screamed, and this time the voices were those of women.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Monstrous Birth; and the imaginative Power at the time of Conception, is so forcible, that it stamps a Character of the thing upon the Child; so that the Child of an Adulteress, by the strength of Imagination may have

    Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

  • If any person committed Adultery with a married or espoused wife, the Adulterer and Adulteress shall surely be put to death.

    The Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1909

  • Adulteress before Christ,” a work which several modern critics assign to Cariani, although Dr. Bode, Sir Walter Armstrong, and others, maintain it to be a real Giorgione.

    Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

  • The “Judgment of Solomon” and “The Adulteress before Christ,” the only two “set” pieces he ever attempted, eloquently show how he fell short when struggling athwart his genius.

    Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

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