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a person who engages in extramarital sexual relations
In the novel, the adulterer is consumed by guilt.
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An altered form of Middle English avouter, from Old French avoutre, remodelled on Latin adulter ('adulterer'), from adulterare ('to commit adultery'), from ad- ('to') + alter ('other').
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