new-wedadj.n.
/ˌnjuːˈwɛd/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uˈwɛd/ Now archaic.† B. n.
A. adj.
= newly-wed adj.
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?1625 T. Middleton Game at Chess (new ed.) iv Ile tell you what I told a (Sauoy) dame once: New Wed, high, plumph, and lusting for an issue.
1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 11 What griefe would this bee to that new-wed-Lord, Who on my conscience ne're unsheath'd his Sword?
1701 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Medea iii. iii, in tr. Seneca Trag. 58 A Carquanet With Gold enchac'd, and a rich Coronet Set with bright Gems; these to the new-wed Bride.
1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 20 Homeward his Sophy's corpse he tends, Frantic his Sophy he infolds; That friendly night his sorrow ends, One grave the new-wed lovers holds.
1834 J. W. Ord England I. 98 Fresh, like a new-wed bride, England arose; The dews she shook from off her lion mane.
1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 21 Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order.
a1909 J. B. Tabb To Freedman in Father Tabb (1923) But with new-wed Liberty Wentest thy way—nor yet as glad to go, But oft in tears that all the world might see.
1959 H. Plutzik Shepherd in Apples from Shinar 46 Who now returned for worship—which he would receive From the newly crowned King, Fang the Gentle, And his new-wed queen, Gertha.
= newly-wed n. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > newly married person
newly-wed1593
neogamist1656
neogam1862
new-wed1893
1893 W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 94 The new-born or the new-wed moves henceforth in the bloodless land of Faery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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