cuckoldry

Definitions

1. An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of being a cuckold.
   countable, uncountable
3. Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“How many such-like cuckoldries are there in histories, procured by the Gods against seely mortall men?”

“By the end⟳ of 2017, it was clear that Homo politicus, like⟳ his allies in Hollywood and the media, tends not towards cuckoldry but a 21st-century equivalent of the droit du seigneur.”

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