Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1734,George Sale, transl.,Alcoran of Mohammed,17:32:
Draw not near untofornication; for it is wickedness, and an evil way
1816,Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066, to the Year, 1803, page623:
In one case, where a man was sued for committingfornication with his wife before marriage, it appeared, that seven years after her death he was cited to stand as a prisoner at their bar, though he had lived with her for nine years,[…]
1893,The Southwestern Reporter, page840:
... that he was a married man at the time is a necessary allegation, as the allegation that he was an unmarried man would have been necessary had he been charged with the crime of incest, by having committedfornication with his daughter.
2013, Arthur W. Calhoun,The American Family in the Colonial Period, Courier Corporation,→ISBN:
Thus, at Roxbury, 1678, Hanna Hopkins was censured in the church forfornication with her husband before marriage and for fleeing from justice into Rhode Island.
For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed duringfornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter[…]
