See fornication in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1734, George Sale, transl., Alcoran of Mohammed, 17:32:",
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"ref": "1816, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066, to the Year, 1803, page 623:",
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"ref": "1893, The Southwestern Reporter, page 840:",
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"ref": "2012, Geoffrey Kennell, The Upper Crust, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 185:",
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"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "通奸"
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"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "姦淫"
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"word": "奸淫"
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"word": "亂倫"
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"word": "乱伦"
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"tags": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "fornikaatio"
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"lang": "Finnish",
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"word": "haureus"
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{
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"word": "salavuoteus"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fornication"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"word": "fornicación"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mrušoba",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "მრუშობა"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "siʒva",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "სიძვა"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"word": "Unzucht"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "fornikasi"
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"lang": "Japanese",
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"word": "姦淫"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ganeum",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "간음"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "kaikaiātara"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"word": "fornicacion"
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Huararie"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rozpusta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fornicação"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"word": "curvie"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blud",
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"word": "внебра́чная связь"
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"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"tags": [
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
"word": "pakikiapid"
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