advowtry
English
Noun
advowtry (countable and uncountable, plural advowtries)
- Obsolete spelling of adultery
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 13
- Then he turned to me and said, "O mortal, we have it in our law that, when the wife committeth advowtry it is lawful for us to slay her."
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 13
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