Wedlock Synonyms

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Synonyms for Wedlock

espousal
A betrothal or betrothal ceremony
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conjugality
The condition of being conjugal
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matrimony
The act or state of being married; marriage.
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spousal relationship
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
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connubiality
Something characteristic of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.
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marriage
The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife, and in some jurisdictions, between two persons of the same sex, usually entailing legal obligations of each person to the other.
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union
In England, a former combination of parishes for the joint administration of relief for the poor; also, a workhouse kept up by such a union
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flogging
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holy matrimony
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  • After only a few months of wedlock his wife died, and Gallatin was once more alone.

  • Being born out of wedlock of mixed race parentage implies a double illegitimacy and a highly precarious social existence.

  • If Poland does not wish to enter into lawful wedlock with Russia, it is not for us to interfere with her.

  • Levi Johnston became a household name in 2008, when his girlfriend Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah Palin, announced her pregnancy out of wedlock.

  • The natural phenomena of Switzerland, and the political complications in the Valtellina, where the Catholic inhabitants had thrown off the yoke of the Grisons and called in the Papal and Spanish troops to their assistance, delayed him some time; but he reached Venice in time to see the ceremony of the doge's wedlock with the Adriatic. After paying his vows at Loretto, he came to Rome, which was then on the eve of a year of jubilee - an occasion which Descartes seized to observe the variety of men and manners which the city then embraced within its walls.

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