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cuckoldry|ˈkʌkəldrɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ry.]
1. The dishonouring of a husband by adultery with or on the part of his wife.
1529S. Fish Supplic. Beggars 6 That cuckoldrie and baudrie shulde reigne ouer all emong your subiectes. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 298 Cuckoldries..procured by the Gods against seely mortall men. 1679in Maidment Sc. Pasquils (1868) 248 Let websters preach, and ladies teach The art of cuckoldrie. 1825Lamb Elia, Pop. Fallacies, How would certain topics, as aldermanity, cuckoldry, have sounded to a Terentian auditory?
†2. A company of cuckolds. Obs.
1538Bale Thre Lawes 228 By the masse, I the defye, With thy whole cuckoldrye.
†3. The position of a cuckold; cuckoldom. Obs.
1612Pasquils Night-Cap (1877) 117 To shew that hornes belong to Cuckoldrie. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne I. 484, I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldry. |