Meaning of Fornication | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.
   countable, uncountable
2. Sexual intercourse in general; sex.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed— BARABAS. Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.”

“I am the sister of one Claudio, Condemned upon the act of fornication To lose⟳ his head, condemned by Angelo”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like⟳: of the which I tell⟳ you before, as I have⟳ also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit⟳ the kingdom of God.”

“Draw⟳ not near unto fornication; for it is wickedness, and an evil way”

“In one case, where a man was sued for committing fornication with his wife before marriage, it appeared, that seven years after her death he was cited to stand⟳ as a prisoner at their bar, though he had lived with her for nine years,[…]”

“... that he was a married man at the time is a necessary allegation, as the allegation that he was an unmarried man would have⟳ been necessary had he been charged with the crime of incest, by having committed fornication with his daughter.”

“Thus, at Roxbury, 1678, Hanna Hopkins was censured in the church for fornication with her husband before marriage and for fleeing from justice into Rhode Island.”

“For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed during fornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter⟳ […]”

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