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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Does somebody know

what's the meaning of : "mild adultery"?

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What a tremendous phrase! I guess it's meant to be amusing. "adultery" is a black-and-white thing.

  • What a tremendous phrase!
  • I guess it's meant to be amusing.
  • "adultery" is a black-and-white thing.
  • It doesn't come in "mild" and "severe" forms.
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What a tremendous phrase!

I guess it's meant to be amusing. "adultery" is a black-and-white thing. It doesn't come in "mild" and "severe" forms.
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I'm sorry, I did't quite understand.

When I heard it, it did'nt sound amusing.

It sounded like some kind of adultery.

Do you maybe have some other ideas?

Thanks.
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AnonymousDo you maybe have some other ideas?
I'm afraid not. To me it means nothing more than "mild" + "adultery". And, as I say, the idea that there could be a mild form of adultery -- i.e. a form that is somehow less serious or severe -- strikes me as an amusingly strange one.
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AnonymousDo you maybe have some other ideas?
REPOST.

I'm afraid not. To me it means nothing more than "mild" + "adultery". And, as I say, the idea that there could be a mild form of adultery -- i.e. a form that is somehow less serious or severe -- strikes me as an amusingly strange one.
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There are references to "mild adultery" in several old texts - the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (d. 1772) refers to the "mild" type as having characteristics that make the adultery (which is always immoral) less odious; one such statement suggests that the "degree of opposition" defines how mild or "grievous" the adultery. In other writings, Swedenborg suggests that circumstances, s
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In my opinion, you can't rank adultery on the scale of acuteness or seriousness. Adultery is, well..., what it is; you can't grade it, can you?

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