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Webster 1913 Edition
Advowtry
{
, Ad-vou′try
,Ad-vow′try
}Noun.
Adultery.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Definition 2024
advowtry
advowtry
English
Noun
advowtry (plural advowtries)
- Obsolete spelling of adultery
- 1885: 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." — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 13