different between adulterer vs adultress

English

From the obsolete verb adulter +? -er.

adulterer (plural adulterers, feminine adulteress)

One who commits adultery: a spouse who has sex with a non-spouse
- 2009 Garner's Modern American Usage page 22
  Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
A male adulterer specifically, opposite adulteress referring to female ones.
- 2005 The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness page 140
  I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife.
- 2016 Freedom From The Sin of Adultery And Fornication page 110
  The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

adulterer

adultress (plural adultresses)

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