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/fˌɔːnɪkˈeɪʃən/
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extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce - voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other
How To Use fornication In A Sentence
- I would not for my life commit a mortal sin; but even should it come to that, I know that simple fornication is not to be compared to the sin of homicide. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
- Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin.
- Praying Indians were fined or punished if they did not work, committed fornication, beat their wives, or wandered between wigwams instead of setting up their own.
- ¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things 'sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them. Colossians 3.
- And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
- Fecisti quod quædam mulieres solent, quoddam molimen, aut machinamentum in modum virilis membri ad mensuram tuæ voluptatis, et illud loco verendorum tuorum aut alterius cum aliquibus ligaturis, ut fornicationem faceres cum aliis mulieribus, vel alia eodem instrumento, sive alio tecum? The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
- Everything in Ireland that was once concealed is now, for them, fair game: Is the Church still against fornication? The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review
- And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Later Articles and Reviews
- They include theft, adultery and fornication, wine drinking, highway banditry, apostasy to of the faith and rebellion.
- So widespread is the understanding that, when a priest or bishop's adultery or fornication comes to light, clergy and laity are equally scandalized.