1737 Mrs. A. Granville in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 597 I was extremely diverted with the philandering you gave me an account of..Bath is not a place to keep lovers a secret.

1799 C. T. Smith What is She? iv. ii. 65 No Philandering—'tis not our way.

1836 N. P. Willis Inklings of Adventure I. 1 Very odd! that I should not remember more of the spot where I took my first lessons in philandering.

1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii. 80 Henrietta Howard accepted the noble old earl's philandering.

1917 E. Wharton Summer v. 61 Sometimes she envied the other girls their..long hours of inarticulate philandering with one of the few youths who still lingered in the village.

1987 R. Ingalls End of Trag. 42 He'd implicated a decent married woman in his philanderings.

2001 Independent on Sunday 4 Mar. (Review Suppl.) 48/2 A media tart known for his charismatic television performances and his constant philandering.

1800 S. Gunning Fashionable Involvements II. xxx. 228 Lord Clarence..left Lady Ann to her own discretion; and the philandering assiduities of a young man in the guards.

1861 W. M. Thackeray Lovel Widower i. 23 No cunning Mephistopheles—the emissary of some philandering Faustus outside—corrupted her duenna, or brought her caskets of diamonds.

1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 736/2 Sham piety and philandering religiousness.

1919 W. Lewis Caliph's Design iv. iii. 69 The especially English philandering flapper-sensibility transpires in every sentence of their accounts of shows.

1973 Daily Tel. 16 May 15/2 And we were willing to put up with the quaint tale of the philandering husband and the sweet little ingénue Nanette.

2001 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 4 Jan. c4 A Brazilian woman who..leaves her filandering husband and relocates to the United States, where she is offered her own cooking show on television.