Definition of "cuckoldry" []

• The state of being a cuckold. (noun)
• The act of making someone a cuckold. (noun)

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• "In what is surely one of the most unbearable scenes of cruelty on film, the spurned brother avenges his "cuckoldry" by raping Nadia before Rocco's eyes."
• "With twice as many resonant words streaming out of his mouth as anyone else on stage, he is the work's desperate center of gravity, in all senses of the word, and a man who must reclaim his wife and his honor in the face of humiliating cuckoldry."
• "Kung San village, two per cent of kids result from cuckoldry; in some contemporary urban neighbourhoods the figure is five per cent to 20 per cent."