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adultery

Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her legal partner.

It is almost universally recognized as grounds for divorce in the US, and is a punishable offence in some states. The legal definition of adultery varies: in some states both parties have to be married (to other people); in others it is adultery if the woman is married but not if only the man is married, and so on.
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Fully aware as she was of the seriously flawed moral code and behaviour of the ruling class, Lady Anne [Barnard] was also fascinated by and appalled at the promiscuity of colonial women and she returns again and again to record the endless liaisons, adulteries and depraved behaviour of more than a few of the colonists.
Illegitimacy and family formation in colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850 by Malherbe, Vertrees C. / Journal of Social History
Virtually blackmailing his wife into taciturn acceptance of his adulteries, he reminds her that it is his money that gives her and the children a luxurious nest in a white world.
Sex, drugs & R & B: 'Ray' & 'Kinsey' by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
He considers those who have been caught up in adulteries, love affairs, and the sexual revolution, and he concludes:
The form of poetry: Richard Wilbur's collected poems by Mason, David / The Weekly Standard
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