fornication

Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.

FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed— BARABAS. Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.

I am the sister of one Claudio, Condemned upon the act of fornication To lose his head, condemned by Angelo

Sexual intercourse in general; sex.

For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed during fornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter […]