单词 | break wedlock |
释义 | > as lemmasto break wedlock d. †to break spousehood (Middle English), to break wedlock, to break matrimony (16th cent.): to break the marriage vow, commit adultery. to break a marriage: to dissolve or annul it, obtain a divorce. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > divorce or separate [verb (intransitive)] divort1581 dismiss1608 unmarry1635 divorce1643 separate1686 to part beds1710 to break a marriage1844 bust1880 to break up1912 split1942 split1942 uncouple1942 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe sunfulle Men þet spushad brekeð. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. Prol. sig. Avi David, though he brake wedlocke. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xix. 18 Thou shalt not breake wedlocke. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xvi. 18 Who so euer putteth awaye his wife and marieth another breaketh matrimony. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. v. 71 His desire to break his first marriage from his wish to espouse Anne Boleyn. to break (one's) wedlock ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > vow eeOE wedlocka1100 wed1390 marriagec1395 marriage vow1602 bed-vow1609 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 a1100 Aldhelm Gloss. in Zeitschr. f. Deutsches Alterthum IX. 498/2 Pacta sponsalia refutans, wedlac wiðsacende. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2499 & tohh wass heh & soþ weddlac Haldenn onn eȝȝþerr hallfe. c1230 Hali Meid. 19 Ȝif ha hare wedlac laheliche halden. c1275 XI Pains of Hell 105 in Old Eng. Misc. 150 Heo þat her wedlac brekeþ To heore muþe þe flod takeþ. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 295 For alle kepid they here maydynhed Or ellis wedlek. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 3 Kepe ȝoure wedloke. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Eiiv There is..noman so hardy that dare breke his wedloke. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. xxi. 30 Howe be it she kept but euyll the sacrament of matrimony, but brake her wedloke. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. v. f. vjv And whosoever maryeth her that is divorsed, breketh wedlocke. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 207 How wedlocke betwyxte man and woman shulde be kepte after the lawe of god. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Pref. sig. A iii None remembred the true obseruation of wedlocke. 1579 R. Rice Inuect. Vices E iv Christe aunswered,..Thou shalte not breake wedlocke: Thou shalte not kill. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 149 Em. That she was false to wedlocke? Oth. I, with Cassio. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 123 Your Mother was most true to Wedlock . View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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