#518 fornication

fornication- voluntary sexual intercourse outside marriage; Bible: sexual immorality in general, especially adultery

C16 from Late Latin fornicari, from Latin fornix vault, brothel situated therein

Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead. Christopher Marlowe

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