intercourse

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As I bade them adieu, I returned the key which had opened so often for me the road to happiness This, my first love affair, did not give me any experience of the world, for our intercourse was always a happy one, and was never disturbed by any quarrel or stained by any interested motive.

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  1. noun Dealings or communications between persons or groups.
  2. noun Sexual intercourse.

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  1. Middle English entercours, commercial dealings, from Old French entrecours, from Latin intercursus, a running between, interposition, from past participle of intercurrere, to mingle with : inter-, inter- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also entercourse; from Middle English entercourse, entrecourse (also intercurse, after L.), from Old French entrecors, entrecours, intercours, intercourse, from Latin intercursus, a running between, intervention, interposition (Middle Latin also intercommunication), from intercurrere, past participle intercursus, run between, intervene: see intercur, intercurrent.
 

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/ˈɪntərkoʊrs/
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