#adultery

• Adultery — The breach of marital fidelity through voluntary sexual relations with a person other than one's legal spouse; marital infidelty. As an adjective, the term describes a person committing this act or qualifies a relation, bond, or behavior that violates the marriage vow. Although decriminalized under modern penal codes (including the Romanian text), adultery remains a classic legal ground for fault-based divorce under civil law and a severe moral breach within ethical and religious codes.
• Adultery (old form) — An archaic, literary, or historical legal variant of the modern noun 'adulter' (adultery), denoting the act of a husband or wife violating the vow of marital fidelity through intimate relations with another person. The term is frequently encountered in 18th and 19th-century legal codes and old biblical translations, utilized to emphasize the moral, religious, or penal severity of marital unfaithfulness.