adulterer

Etymology

adulter + -er.

noun

  1. One who commits adultery: a spouse who has sex with a non-spouse
    Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator. 2009, Garner's Modern American Usage, page 22
  2. A male adulterer specifically, opposite adulteress referring to female ones.
    I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife. 2005, The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness, page 140
    The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. 2016, Freedom From The Sin of Adultery And Fornication, page 110

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