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破倫
はりん
1. [n] [rare]
▶ immorality (oft. sexual)
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1495370 不倫 1. adultery; impropriety; (an) affair; immorality



History:
2. A 2023-10-05 22:51:05  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2023-10-05 05:33:10  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
不倫	1545340	100.0%
破倫	216	0.0%

https://kotobank.jp/word/破倫-605444
nikk:
〘名〙 (形動) 人の守るべき道義に背くこと。また、そのさま。不倫。
and. 不倫:
〘名〙 (形動) 不道徳であること。特に、不道徳な男女関係にいう。また、そのさま。
daijs:
人として守るべき道に背くこと。人倫にはずれること。
and 不倫
(スル)道徳にはずれること。特に、配偶者以外と肉体関係をもつこと。また、そのさま。

Example: 破倫 used to describe reading victims names without the family's permission in a prayer ceremony?
梨泰院犠牲者の実名を呼んだ神父「破倫? 千回でもする」
https://s.japanese.joins.com/JArticle/297766?sectcode=430&servcode=400

Verbal attacks on South Korean president Park Geun-hye in 2016:
「破倫の悪女」「ぼけた老女」-北朝鮮が朴槿恵大統領を〝総攻撃〟 品性を疑うその罵詈雑言とは…
https://www.sankei.com/article/20160229-4JK7RXG5VRNE5EL3UXVQB446HY/

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/is+incest+illegal+in+japan
1不倫の行為
例文an incestuous act
2破倫の行為
例文an incestuous act
3不倫の行為をする
例文to be guilty of incest  <--- I am suspicious of this too, and we don't have "incest" on 不倫
4破倫の行為を為す
例文to be guilty of incest
  Comments:
Seems like it aught to be an emphatic form of 不倫.  倫を...破裂/破れる ("discarding/breaking all morality").

Google translate uses "adultery" and "infidelity".  It even sticks this in places where it clearly does not belong (general "immorality", such as the news article 「破倫? 千回でもする」, which has a total mess of a translation).

Granted I didn't read each novel for context, but the ~10 yourei results look like run-of-the-mill adultery and/or general immortality. Some examples:
https://yourei.jp/破倫
俺は道義を考えたことのない破倫者だ. 
その性格にはドストイエフスキイのやうな破倫性と病理學的憂鬱性とがあり...
そのために松永弾正という破倫の魔王に活を入れる必要がある (probably not sexual)
しばらくしてから、弥宵の破倫の気配と、松島森子との出会い。
源氏を「誨淫の書」だの、「破倫の書」だのと言つて、まるで唾を吐きかけるやうな調子で (old critiques on genji)

I found one twitter mention for incest: "娘に長期間破倫の行為をした父":
...尊属殺重罰規定は違憲・無効で、尊属でありながら娘に長期間破倫の行為をした父に耐えきれず殺害した娘

But that was a singleton.  There are not many such examples. And I wouldn't translate that as "incestuous acts", but something more like "inhuman acts".  

Various e->j resources have pinned "incest" in particular to this term, but I see no evidence for this specificity in Japanese sources.
  Diff:
@@ -12,2 +12,3 @@
-<gloss>immorality</gloss>
-<gloss>incest</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1495370">不倫</xref>
+<misc>&rare;</misc>
+<gloss>immorality (oft. sexual)</gloss>

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