nuptialityn.
/ˌnʌpʃɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌnəp(t)ʃiˈælədi/ a. In plural. A couple about to be joined in marriage. 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] > couple about to be married
nuptialities1759
1759 H. Walpole Let. 1 May in Corr. (1941) IX. 233 My nuptialities dined there yesterday. The wedding is fixed for the fifteenth.
b. In plural. Marriage ceremonies. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun]
wifethingeOE
bridelopeOE
brydthing971
bridelockOE
bridalOE
noces?c1225
wedlocka1300
spousingc1300
weddingc1300
marriagea1375
espousala1393
sponsalia1535
nuptial1566
espousing1581
nuptial1581
marriage rite1592
nuptiallings1600
Hymen1608
marriage ceremony1616
bridaltya1637
confarreation1645
hymeneals1655
farreation1656
church wedding1852
nuptialities1863
shadi1893
matrimonials1986
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > marriage service
order of wedlockc1395
matrimonya1625
marriage service1698
nuptialities1863
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iv. 96 The classic stateliness of Theseus and Hypolita, with their sedate and lofty nuptialities, form..a splendid frame to the picture.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > conjugal virtues or character
nuptiality1789
1789 H. Walpole Let. to Miss M. Berry 19 July In France, where nuptiality is not the virtue most in request.
1870 E. Sweet Future Life 498 The higher uses of nuptiality, till I comprehended the worth of human love and the sublime laws which make its devotions eternal.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. ii. 34 Innocent of the Bacchic nuptiality of the allusion.
3. Statistics. The frequency or incidence of marriage within a population.
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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > demographics
birth rate1856
demography1880
natality1885
demographics1892
nuptiality1900
survivorship1949
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > records > proportion of marriages in population
marriage rate1856
nuptiality1900
1900 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 63 610 With the same intensity of nuptiality a difference of nearly 1 per cent. in the birth-rate is found.
1948 Population Stud. 2 356 The relations between male and female nuptiality in general.
1973 Times 12 Dec. 2/3 Although nuptiality was higher than ever, mean family size for couples..had dropped.
1989 M. K. Matossian Poisons of Past vii. 89 There are available..some new estimates of the changing size of the English population and its fertility, nuptiality, and mortality rates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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