partneredadj.
/ˈpɑːtnəd/, U.S. /ˈpɑrtnərd/ In early use chiefly poetic.
Involving a partner or a partnership; that has a partner, married.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective]
wedded?a800
spousedc1300
weda1400
marriedc1400
boundenc1426
conjugate1471
nuptial?1585
yoked1607
continuous1642
wedlock-bound1667
coupled1672
conjugated1690
partnered1775
mated1821
attached1898
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Partnered, joined, associated.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 318 O'er the partner'd task contentment shines—Bids Lad and Lass the Rig together drive.
1874 B. Taylor Prophet iii. vi. 175 You cannot sink Below our partnèred light, nor I, alone, Aspire beyond it.
1932 Times 5 Jan. 10/3 Mr. Jack Stanford in a single turn succeeds in burlesquing both a partnered dance and a whiff of Grand Guignol.
1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. c16/1 Magali Messac and Mr. Stretton obviously did not have sufficient rehearsals to make the partnered classical sections.
1998 Church Times 20 Mar. 9/2 Southwark Reform says that it does not want a witch-hunt of those gay and partnered clergy who are already in post.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1775