fornication
IPA: fˈɔrnɪkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (religion, law) Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.
- (colloquial) Sexual intercourse in general; sex.
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Examples of "fornication" in Sentences
- I think fornication is better for you, the stones are smaller ….
- Note, The sin of fornication is a great injury in a Christian to his head and lord, and
- The image of a harlot's hire for the supposed temporal reward of spiritual fornication, is more common in Scripture (Ho 9: 1).
- I would not for my life commit a mortal sin; but even should it come to that, I know that simple fornication is not to be compared to the sin of homicide.
- Words that sound funny after you say them repeatedly (ex. “tampons,” “smorgasbord,” “gleen”) and what they start to sound like (gleen=the word for fornication in the language of Sleestacks).
- Therefore fornication is not indifferent, since it is a sin against one's own body, which, like the Lord for whom it is created, is not to be destroyed, but to be raised to eternal existence.
- Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect (Jer 3: 1-15; Eze 16: 1-17: 24) [Trench].
- In the first Epistle which we have, the subject of fornication is alluded to only in a way, as if he were rather replying to an excuse set up after rebuke in the matter, than introducing for the first time [Alford].
- To those whom I have told this story since, some have disputed whether this was correct application of the sharia, primarily upon two grounds: (1) that she was not a Believer, and therefore sharia cannot apply, or (2) that the punishment for fornication is merely a hundred lashes, not the death by stoning required for adultery.
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