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cuck·old·ry C0792500 (kŭk′əl-drē, ko͝ok′-)n.1. The state of being a cuckold.2. The act of making someone a cuckold.cuck•old•ry (ˈkʌk əl dri)
n. 1. the act of making someone's husband a cuckold. 2. the state or quality of being a cuckold. [1520–30] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | cuckoldry - the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married womensexual conquest, score - a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang" |
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CuckoldrySee also Adultery, Faithlessness.Actaeon’s hornssymbol of cuckoldry. [Medieval and Ren. Folklore: Walsh Classical, 5]antlersmetaphorical decoration for deceived husband. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395]Arveragusdelivers wife to adulterer to keep promise. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “The Franklin’s Tale”]Boylan, Blazescuckolds Leopold Bloom. [Irish Lit.: James Joyce Ulysses in Magill I, 1040]Cabot, EphraimAbbie, his young wife, seduces his youngest son Eben. [Am. Drama: Eugene O’Neill Desire Under the Elms]Chatterley, Sir Cliffordcripple whose wife has a prolonged affair with his gamekeeper. [Br. Lit.: D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover in Benét, 559]cuckoosymbolizes adulterous betrayal by wife. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395; Mercatante, 164]del Sarto, Andreacuckolded Florentine painter; protagonist of Browning’s poem. [Art Hist.: Walsh Modern, 19–20; Br. Lit.: “Andrea del Sarto” in Norton, 778–783]Hildebrand, Oldsent away while wife and preacher play. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 333]Mannon, Ezrakindly general deceived by adulterous wife and murdered. [Am. Lit.: Mourning Becomes Electra]Mark, Kingby Tristan after May-December marriage to Isolde. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Westerman, 220]Menelaushis wife, Helen, was also Paris’s lover. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]Rubin, Maximilianosickly pharmacist; wife’s infidelities begin on wedding night. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta]Trusotskylearns from his dead wife’s letters that she had numerous lovers and that he is not the father of his child. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Eternal Husband]Uriah the Hittitewhile he is at war, his wife sleeps with David. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:6]MedicalSeecuckoldcuckoldryenUK
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