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  • noun Plural form of adultress.

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Examples

  • In the context of "adultresses" in the last verse, this translation seems to me to make James's intent clearest.

    A Christian Worldview of Fiction 2010

  • In the context of "adultresses" in the last verse, this translation seems to me to make James's intent clearest.

    A Christian Worldview of Fiction Rebecca LuElla Miller 2010

  • In the context of "adultresses" in the last verse, this translation seems to me to make James's intent clearest.

    A Christian Worldview of Fiction 2010

  • In the context of "adultresses" in the last verse, this translation seems to me to make James's intent clearest.

    A Christian Worldview of Fiction Rebecca LuElla Miller 2010

  • Does the ambassador to Saudi Arabia need to support the stoning of adultresses?

    The Vatican rejects Caroline Kennedy. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Meanwhile, it baffles me that you people defend a belief system that believes in the righteousness of "honour" killings, mutilating the sex organs of little girls so they will never enjoy sex and thus be tempted to run away from their husbands and embarrass everyone, hangs homosexuals from cranes, stones adulterers (or, more frequently, adultresses) and requires a woman who has been raped to produce four male witnesses to the rape.

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

  • This question comes up most often when we see press reports about the victims of Sharia law, like those horrific cases of adultresses being stoned to death in the public square.

    When Rights and Rules Collide 2007

  • _Herodias_, &c. O yee adulterers and adultresses, can yee offer God a baser indignity?

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

  • Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses.

    Touch and Go 1907

  • Your projects, ye sons of adultresses and whoremongers, have failed in the chase of the devouring eagle, he exclaimed.

    Antar : 1820

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