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[ wed-lok ] / ˈwɛdˌlɒk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wedlock ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe state of marriage; matrimony. Origin of wedlockbefore 1100; Middle English wedlok,Old English wedlāc literally, a pledging, equivalent to wed pledge (see wed) + -lāc verbal noun suffix Words nearby wedlockwedge tomb, wedgie, Wedgwood, Wedgwood blue, wedgy, wedlock, Wednesday, Wednesdays, wee, weed, weed cutter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wedlockThis recognized family rights when paternity is established, whether a child was born in or out of wedlock. In Tussle Over Will, Mistress’s Family Takes a Bite Out of NYU|Anthony Haden-Guest|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST The results are shocking: 96 percent of babies born to African American high school dropouts are born out of wedlock. The Real Enemy of Marital Bliss Are Those Most Opposed to Marriage Equality|Jay Michaelson|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Mother and baby homes were where young women who had conceived out of wedlock were sent to have their babies. Ireland’s ‘Mother and Baby Home’ Horror Goes Beyond Tuam’s Dead Infants|Patsy McGarry|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST Accepting the conception of a child out of love—and out of wedlock. ‘Downton Abbey’ Finale Review: The Depressing Demise of a Once-Great Show|Kevin Fallon|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And she was one pro-life person who repeatedly opened her home to teenage women who had become pregnant out of wedlock. Remembering Ma Laureys, the Mother of 10 Christie Slandered to Win His First Election|Michael Daly|January 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Am I not fallen lower than the lowest he among them who hath been born in wedlock? Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2)|Jonathon Holt Ingraham If this is to lure and inveigle a young man into wedlock, the elder Miss Westbrook was guilty of that offence. The Real Shelley, Vol. I (of 2)|John Cordy Jeaffreson At a matter of fact, however, he told me that I was born in wedlock. The Pagan's Cup|Fergus Hume It had been the passionate hope of Chopin to marry Mme. Sand, but wedlock was alien alike to her philosophy and preference. The Great German Composers|George T. Ferris Thetis is given in wedlock to the mortal Peleus, and Achilles is born. Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2)|John Addington Symonds
British Dictionary definitions for wedlock
nounthe state of being married born out of wedlock born when one's parents are not legally married Word Origin for wedlockOld English wedlāc, from wedd pledge + -lāc, suffix denoting activity, perhaps from lāc game, battle (related to Gothic laiks dance, Old Norse leikr) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with wedlockThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to wedlockalliance, coupling, nuptials, union, matrimony, wedding, espousal, association, mating, conjugality, connubiality, spousal |