Advowtry
Full definition of advowtry
Noun
advowtry
(plural advowtries)- Obsolete spelling of adultery
- 1885: Then he turned to me and said, "O mortal, we have it in our law that, when the wife committeth advowtry it is lawful for us to slay her." — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 13