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Wedlock   /wˈɛdlˌɑk/   Listen
noun
Wedlock  n.  
1.
The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke... that men clepeth (call) spousal, or wedlock." "For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife?"
2.
A wife; a married woman. (Obs.)
Synonyms: See Marriage.


verb
Wedlock  v. t.  To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. (R.) "Man thus wedlocked."





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"Wedlock" Quotes from Famous Books



... almost arrived that was to unite them forever in the bands of wedlock, when happening to take a walk together toward one of the gates of Babylon, under the palm trees that adorn the banks of the Euphrates, they saw some men approaching, armed with sabers and arrows. These were the attendants ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... power that if my childish promise had been made without purpose or conscience thereof, or indeed if my will were not with it, it would bind me no more, there were no sin in wedlock for me, no broken vow. But my own conscience of my vow, and my sense that I belong to my Heavenly Spouse, proved, he said, that it was not my duty to give myself to another, and that whereas none have a parent's right over ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge
... respectable fashion. Of course I can't say that the Glittering Lady is as yet absolutely converted to our faith, but I am certain that she has absorbed enough of its principles to justify me in uniting her in Christian wedlock." ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... she had committed one great crime in consequence of me, but would rather die than perform another. I could easily have brought her Ladyship to her senses, however: but my scheme had taken wind, and it was now in vain to attempt it. We might have had a dozen children in honest wedlock, and people would ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... with you in this intimate fashion, were I not aware that you, Master Julian, were free from such stain of the times. Heaven, that rendered the King's course of license fruitful, had denied issue to his bed of wedlock; and in the gloomy and stern character of his bigoted successor, we already see what sort of monarch shall succeed to the crown of England. This is a critical period, at which it necessarily becomes the duty of all men to step forward, each ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott


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