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fornication
Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate = November 25, 2013 )〕 For many people, the term carries an overtone of moral or religious disapproval, but the significance of sexual acts to which the term is applied varies between religions, societies and cultures. The definition is often disputed. In modern usage, the term is often replaced with a more judgment-neutral term like extramarital sex.
==Etymology and usage==
Prostitutes in ancient Rome waited for their customers out of the rain under vaulted ceilings, and the Latin word for vaults, ''fornix'', became a euphemism for brothels, and the Latin verb ''fornicare'' referred to a man visiting a brothel. The first recorded use in English is in the ''Cursor Mundi'', c. 1300; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records a figurative use as well: "The forsaking of God for idols".
''Fornicated'' as an adjective is still used in botany, meaning "arched" or "bending over" (as in a leaf). John Milton plays on the double meaning of the word in ''The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty'' (1642): "() gives up her body to a mercenary whordome under those ''fornicated ()ches'' which she cals Gods house."
The Greek term ''porneia'' (πορνεία) which means "illicit sexual intercourse" was translated as "fornication" in the 1611 King James Version of the bible〔See Matthew 5:32 for usage of the word in English bibles〕 and has also been translated as ''whoredom'', ''sexual immorality'' or simply ''immorality''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The English Standard Version )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Greek Lexicon )〕
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