See Also: ecthlipsis(dictionary)

Adultery (law) and ecthlipsis (iou)


Adultery (law)




Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not the spouse, while the Marriage is still valid. This is a common fact relied on for Divorce





ecthlipsis (iou)



ecthlipsis noun. . L16.
[mod. Latin from Greek ekthlipsis, from ekthlibein squeeze out.]
Classical Prosody. The removal of a syllable ending in m before a vowel.