ProphetesAI is thinking...
devoterer
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
devoterer
devoterer corrupted form of advoterer, adulterer. (Cf devoutour.)1550 Becon Gov. Virtue Early Wks. (1843) 450 The man that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife..let him be slain, both the devoterer [ed. 1566 advoterer] and the advouteress.
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
devoutour
devoutour, -trour corrupted forms of advoutour, advoutrer, adulter, -erer. (Cf. devoterer.) So devoutrie for advoutrie, adultery.1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 175 Owre synne to suffre, As deuoutrie [other MSS. aduoutrie] and deuo[r]ses and derne vsurye. 1393 Ibid. C. iii. 184 And ich my-self cyuyle and ...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai