| 单词 | wedlock-band |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswedlock-band a. Simple attributive (now rare or Obsolete) as in wedlock-band, wedlock-bed, wedlock-debt, wedlock-knot, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > conjugal relations > rights and duties bedc1175 wedlock-debt1422 marriage bed1567 marriage duty1567 spouse-bed1605 marriage joya1616 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 194 To pay wedlak dette hit is of no syn. 1557 Will of John Amcottes (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/39) ff. 189v–192 In the choyse of their wedlockmates. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 485 By wedlocke copulation we came into the world. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 32 She kneeles and prayes for happy wedlock houres. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 243 Ile ioyne mine eldest daughter..To him forthwith, in holy Wedlocke bands [1595 wedlockes bandes] . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 135 Whiles a Wedlocke Hymne we sing. View more context for this quotation 1624 R. Davenport City Night-cap (1661) ii. 17 Since our marriage, I have perform'd So fairly all judicial wedlock-offices, That [etc.]. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 69 Will it please you to tast of the wedlock courtesie? 1635 J. Taylor Olde, Old Man sig. B3v She dead, he ten yeares did a Widdower stay; Then once more ventred in the Wedlock way. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 986 Who to save Her countrey from a fierce destroyer, chose Above the faith of wedlock-bands . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1009 Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end, Not wedlock-trechery endangering life. View more context for this quotation 1820 W. Scott tr. Noble Moringer in Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1816 9 ii. p. ccccxcv It was the noble Moringer in wedlock bed he lay. 1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 64 To Ilion came the wedlock-woe. < as lemmas |
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