Which preposition to use with adultery

of Occurrences 53%

The favorite cases concerned the tyranny of fathers, the debauchery of sons, the adultery of wives, and the rape of daughters.

with Occurrences 31%

Topham Beauclerk, who had married the Duke's sister, after she had been divorced for adultery with him from her first husband Viscount Bolingbroke.

in Occurrences 21%

By Heaven, it would be flat Adultery in her!

as Occurrences 12%

For this he was condemned to die a traitor's death; that is, to be hanged, disembowelled, and quartered at Tyburn in order that Henry might enjoy his Kentish mistress in peace, and found a new Church eager to acknowledge his adultery as lawful and to enjoy the spoil of God.

by Occurrences 3%

Theft is, according to the penal code, punished by fine and imprisonment, murder and adultery by death; but the law is subject to great modifications.

against Occurrences 3%

"And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

on Occurrences 2%

Concubinage is here treated of for the sake of order; for from order it is discovered what is the quality of marriage on the one part, and of adultery on the other.

from Occurrences 2%

This is the case with conjugial love, when a married person commits adultery from a confirmed principle, and thus from a deliberate purpose.

among Occurrences 2%

In Russia, its use was punishable with amputation of the nose; in Berne, it ranked next to adultery among offences; Sandys, the traveller, saw a Turk led through the streets of Constantinople mounted backward on an ass with a tobacco-pipe thrust through his nose.

without Occurrences 1%

Cato the Censor (234-149 B.C.) dilated with joy on the fact that a woman could be condemned to death by her husband for adultery without a public trial, whereas men were allowed any number of infidelities without censure.

after Occurrences 1%

Imputation of adulteries after death, how effected, 485, 489, 493; these imputations take place after death, not according to circumstances, which are external of the deed, but according to internal circumstances of the mind, 530.

for Occurrences 1%

And notice carefully one thing: M. Flaubert is not the man who has painted a charming adultery for you, in order to arrive later with the Deus ex machina; no, you are carried too quickly on to the last page.

than Occurrences 1%

When on his death-bed he was charged with having children by a mistress he kept, he protected that in his conscience he kept her in the notion of a wife: And such was his cowardice, that he chose rather to confess adultery than own marriage, a crime at that time more subjected to punishment than the other.

to Occurrences 1%

Another hearing one had done that for him, which no man desires to be done by a deputy, followed in a rage with his sword drawn, and having overtaken him, laid adultery to his charge; the offender hotly pursued, confessed it was true; with which confession he was satisfied, and so left him, swearing that if he had denied it, he would not have put it up.

about Occurrences 1%

Why do you not speak many words, and become again as eloquent and as magnificent as you were when you contrived that adultery about which you were just now telling my husband?" De Gâtinais raised clenched hands.

Which preposition to use with  adultery