criminal conversation in English

noun
1
adultery, especially as formerly constituting grounds for the recovery of legal damages by a husband from his adulterous wife's partner.
The last three chapters take up, in turn, the popular literature of domestic homicide, adultery in the church courts, and cases of ‘ criminal conversation .’
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1. Relating to, or having the character of crime; as, Criminal law, Criminal conversation, &c

2. 19 You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife.