conjugalityn.
/kɒndʒʊˈɡalɪti/ a. Conjugal state or condition.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun]
bridelockOE
yokeOE
spousehooda1200
spousea1225
wedlock?c1225
wedlockhoodc1230
marriagec1300
spousal1340
matrimonya1382
espousala1393
muliera1400
spousagea1400
spouseheadc1400
weddedhooda1450
wedhooda1450
wedding1489
espousage1549
the bond(s of wedlock or matrimony1552
nuptial1566
bed-match1582
bob-tail1585
Hymen's banda1593
Hymen1608
married life1609
conjugality1645
marriage state1652
conjugacy1659
marriage life1662
establishment1684
shackledom1771
connubiality1836
connubialism1848
weddedness1891
bedlock1922
the tender trap1954
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 11 Which..should..difference it from a brute conjugality.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Matt. xix. 4 God..by the Law of Conjugality, united them..as into One.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. xii. 99 To say nothing of the conjugality which they found at my fire side.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 159 Distaste for conjugality.
b. quasi-concrete.
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1737 Ld. Hervey Mem. II. 408 The Prince kept this gilded piece of royal conjugality in such profound ignorance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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