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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



... acknowledge legally a child which can be born to them only through a double crime! The most revolting part of it all is that these children of crime, who are of course perfectly innocent themselves, are called natural children, as if children born in wedlock came into the world in an unnatural manner! In one word, my dear son, the vow of chastity is so much opposed to Divine precepts and to human nature that it can be agreeable neither to God nor to ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... 1622, and is of stone, painted and gilt. On the east wall of the north aisle are three monuments which attract attention. That of "Payne of Pallenswick Esqre," who "hath placed this monument to the memory of himself and Jane his wife who hath lived with him in wedlock XLIIII years and died the first day of May in Anno Dmi 1610, and the said William Payne the day of Anno Dmi . The sayd William Payne hath given forever after his decease an Ilande in the Ryver of Thames caled Makenshawe to the use of the poor of this parish on Hammersmith ...
— Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... night. Margaret Vernon had redeemed her troth-plight, given to Sir Thomas Stanley early in the summer, and in the former part of the day she had been joined in holy wedlock with her lover by Father Nicholas Bury, with more of the Roman Catholic ritual than Queen Elizabeth's ministers would have approved of ...
— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday
... her daughter and her granddaughter. "Their talk is all in ridicule of marriage, and of every sacred thing. And if there are any bachelors, they have come—well, certainly not in search of honorable wedlock." ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... thee?"—gently, but not looking at her. "Thee never had a son; an' when thee has, it will be born in wedlock. Thee's rich, an' well taught. I was jess a clam-fisher, an' knowed nothin' but my baby. His father was a gentleman: come in spring, an' gone in th' fall, an' that was the last of him. That hurt a bit, but I had Derrick. Oh, Derrick! Derrick!"—whispering, rocking ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various


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