Definition of "adulteries" []

• Plural form of adultery. (noun)

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• "They added to do evil (so the Chaldee paraphrase expounds it); they were old in adulteries, and obstinate."
• "Those that had been old in adulteries, and long fixed in a proud opinion of themselves, were here, even the oldest of them, startled by the word of Christ; even scribes and Pharisees, who were most conceited of themselves, are by the power of Christ's word made to retire with shame."
• "God by his prophets warned them against making these dangerous leagues with foreigners (v. 43): Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, that from the first was fond of leagues with the heathen, of matching with their families (Judg.iii. 6), and afterwards of making alliances with their kingdoms, and, though often disappointed therein, would never be dissuaded from it (this was the adultery she was old in), I said, Will they now commit whoredoms with her and she with them?"