[f. as prec. + -RY.]
1. The dishonoring of a husband by adultery with or on the part of his wife.
1529. S. Fish, Supplic. Beggars, 6. That cukkoldrie and baudrie shulde reigne ouer all emong your subiectes.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. (1632), 298. Cuckoldries … procured by the Gods against seely mortall men.
1679. in Maidment, Sc. Pasquils (1868), 248. Let websters preach, and ladies teach The art of cuckoldrie.
1825. Lamb, Elia, Pop. Fallacies. How would certain topics, as aldermanity, cuckoldry, have sounded to a Terentian auditory?
† 2. A company of cuckolds. Obs.
1538. Bale, Thre Lawes, 228. By the masse, I the defye, With thy whole cuckoldrye.
† 3. The position of a cuckold; cuckoldom. Obs.
1612. Pasquils Night-Cap (1877), 117. To shew that hornes belong to Cuckoldrie.
1685. Cotton, trans. Montaigne, I. 484. I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldry.
