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  • noun Plural form of adulteress.

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  • He reasoned that if "adulteresses" were forced to have babies, the children raised by them, or given up for adoption, would grow up to lead sinful lives and end up in hell.

    Apologetics Index 2008

  • The problems of definition aside, I would assume (on my own understanding of the term) that I am somewhat more liberal than people who think it appropriate and morally defensible to amputate thieves 'hands and feet, to bury 15-year-old girls who have been raped up to their necks and then to stone them to death as "adulteresses", to gouge men's eyes out, to behead criminals in public (or in private for that matter), to give (as happened recently in Iran) a man 1000 lashes before encouraging the family of his alleged victim to stab him repeatedly and then to hang him from a crane, or to push walls onto alleged or proven homosexuals.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The problems of definition aside, I would assume (on my own understanding of the term) that I am somewhat more liberal than people who think it appropriate and morally defensible to amputate thieves 'hands and feet, to bury 15-year-old girls who have been raped up to their necks and then to stone them to death as "adulteresses", to gouge men's eyes out, to behead criminals in public (or in private for that matter), to give (as happened recently in Iran) a man 1000 lashes before encouraging the family of his alleged victim to stab him repeatedly and then to hang him from a crane, or to push walls onto alleged or proven homosexuals.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • He also proudly stands by the comments endorsing the stoning of adulteresses that he made in a 1997 interview with an American newspaper.

    Emboldened Taliban Try to Sell Softer Image Yaroslav Trofimov 2012

  • Does the Harvard Club have a rule against adulterers (or now adulteresses)?

    Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010

  • Does the Harvard Club have a rule against adulterers (or now adulteresses)?

    Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010

  • Does the Harvard Club have a rule against adulterers (or now adulteresses)?

    Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010

  • Does the Harvard Club have a rule against adulterers or now adulteresses?

    Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010

  • Wannabe believers like fred err when they say lies like "God hates the killing of unborn babies" - indeed, Numbers 5:11-31, for example, details the procedure for priests to give abortions to suspected adulteresses, even detailing the payment for the service that the cuckolded husband is required to make.

    TEXAS FAITH: Obama, Congress, CEOs and leadership styles | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • One of the last places in the world where adulteresses are condemned to stoning, assigned to champion gender equality and the struggle against discrimination.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Iran to Defend Women's Rights and Philosophy? No, Unfortunately, it's Not a Joke Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

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