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Wedded   /wˈɛdəd/  /wˈɛdɪd/   Listen
verb
Wed  v. t.  (past wedded; past part. wedded or wed; pres. part. wedding)  
1.
To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. "With this ring I thee wed." "I saw thee first, and wedded thee."
2.
To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. "And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her."
3.
Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. "Thou art wedded to calamity." "Men are wedded to their lusts." "(Flowers) are wedded thus, like beauty to old age."
4.
To take to one's self and support; to espouse. (Obs.) "They positively and concernedly wedded his cause."



Wed  v. i.  To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed."



adjective
Wedded  adj.  
1.
Joined in wedlock; married.
2.
Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love."






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"Wedded" Quotes from Famous Books



... comforted, dearest Mr. Grahame," she exclaimed, in a voice that caused him to gaze at her with astonishment. "It is a mistaken tale you have heard; a cruel falsehood, to disturb your peace. Lord Alphingham was married, but Annie is now his lawful wedded wife; the partner of his youth, the devoted woman whom for eight years he deserted, is no more. She died the day preceding that which united Lord Alphingham to your child. I speak truth, Mr. Grahame; solemnly, sacredly, I affirm it. Percy will tell ...
— The Mother's Recompense, Volume I. - A Sequel to Home Influence in Two Volumes. • Grace Aguilar

... puts forth upon the sea of melodrama, I am sorry to record that this promising vessel comes as near shipwreck as makes no difference. To drop metaphor, the group of persons surrounding the unhappily-wedded Anthony Massareen—Claudia, who attempts to rescue him and his two boys, the boys themselves, and the clerical family whose fortunes are affected by their proximity to the Massareens—all these are well and credibly drawn. But when we arrive ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 30, 1917 • Various

... had been a hard continuous fight with difficulty after the first few years of her wedded existence. She had seen her gay, pleasure-loving husband change under the iron grasp of untoward circumstances into a querulous, bitter, disappointed man, rewarding all her efforts to keep their heads above water by sarcastic complaints of her narrow stinginess, venting ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander

... cat, neither the newly-wedded bride, nor the hospitable master of the house when he looks round on the ...
— The Cat and the Mouse - A Book of Persian Fairy Tales • Hartwell James

... looked at him like that, tucking them away in his mental list to be investigated later. He had quite a little list in his mental archives of women, wedded and otherwise, who interested him agreeably or otherwise. Neither Mrs. Carrick nor Cecile was on that list. Shiela Cardross was—and ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers


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