cuckoldry

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How Rondibilis declareth cuckoldry to be naturally one of the appendances of marriage.

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  1. noun The state of being a cuckold.
  2. noun The act of making someone a cuckold.

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  • Still, it's a wise man who knows his own son-- so cuckoldry is a rage-producing taboo. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • Translated as "the horned one" in reference to cuckoldry, the chair's return comes thanks to the discovery of the original in a Rio pawn shop last year. —  Cool Hunting
  • Written by fin-de-siecle Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler (and translated into Czech by Vojtěch Jestřáb, with English subtitles by Švandovo mainstay Lucie Kolouchová), the tale isn't the typical adventure in cuckoldry that one might expect. —  The Prague Post
  • An end to this vile nest of cuckoldry —  Helen Redeemed and Other Poems
  • How Friar John comforteth Panurge in the doubtful matter of cuckoldry. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
 

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/ˈkəkəldri/
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