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单词 conjugal
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Definition of conjugal in English:

conjugal

adjective ˈkɒndʒʊɡ(ə)lˈkɑndʒəɡəl
  • Relating to marriage or the relationship between a married couple.

    conjugal loyalty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A broader preoccupation with conjugal relationships in Victorian politics, literature, and art was probably also a factor.
    • Valentine's Day used to be known as a kitsch, childish and generally innocent celebration where teenagers sent themselves cards and married couples enjoyed biannual conjugal relations.
    • Both parties were getting involved in a second conjugal relationship.
    • The writer himself says of the conjugal relationship, ‘This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the Church.’
    • Actually, we expect that Canadian homosexual couples will behave like Canadian heterosexual couples and see marriage as one of many conjugal options, each with its benefits and drawbacks.
    • The reader must then take up the baton, receive the message of this missive which has been addressed to her and thus respond to the invitation to have conjugal relations with the text.
    • I'm sure his wife was overwhelmingly grateful to be relieved of conjugal duties after thirty-five years of marriage.
    • The story confirms a preference for the unconsummated love of a distant, but admired object, over the conjugal relationship.
    • If you are going to live with this girl in a conjugal relationship (look it up in the dictionary, James) then it's high time you took a good hard look at yourself and your miserable nature.
    • Those who have not enjoyed conjugal relations in a while should start to feel especially nervous.
    • In these smaller conjugal families, the roles of husbands and wives feature greater equality and more sharing of responsibilities.
    • The father is formally the head of the household, but more equal conjugal relations are common among younger couples.
    • He should then explain to the boy and girl individually their respective conjugal duties as husband and wife.
    • Unlike blood relationships, the conjugal relationship is chosen by the parties.
    • A person with whom you've lived for a period of 12 months or more in a conjugal relationship is generally considered to be a common-law spouse.
    • The conjugal vision of marriage itself is being stamped as discriminatory and bigoted.
    • Women have a degree of material and psychological security but suffer complete instability in conjugal relationships.
    • The conjugal relation portrayed between husband and wife differs in both its commensal and sexual aspects from a quotidian union.
    • This may explain their higher rates of separation and divorce and their lower levels of satisfaction with conjugal relations and sexuality.
    • Husbands had the right to dispose of conjugal property, including property the wife brought to the union, as they saw fit.
    Synonyms
    marital, matrimonial, nuptial, marriage, married, wedded, connubial, bridal
    Law spousal
    literary hymeneal, epithalamic

Derivatives

  • conjugality

  • noun kɒndʒʊˈɡalɪtiˌkɑndʒəˈɡælədi
    • The latter is condemned as the loathsome embodiment of their abject desecration, the ‘dark side’ of the ‘American dream’ of affluence and opportunity for all, believed to flow from morality anchored in conjugality and work.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In his vest pocket Jeremiah carried a leather-bound book; for each woman he examined, he penned three numbers: their amativeness, adhesiveness, and conjugality, rated from one to seven.
      • But she'd been taught love was a basis of conjugality, not emergency and fear of the unfamiliar.
      • They shun the marriage counselor and wastewater treatment and harm the conjugality of watershed love.
      • Privileging conjugality over consanguinity, contrary to African realities, is responsible for misreadings of the statuses of African women and their conditions of life.
  • conjugally

  • adverb
    • Attached to no man conjugally and bereft of blood kin, her primary ties to the domestic narrative have been severed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When your spouse, to whom you are conjugally obligated, refuses to cooperate, you are left with no alternative except to comply.
      • A family is defined, for these purposes, as two or more people living together who are conjugally related.
      • Tom, in the meantime, has repeatedly taken to the courts in an effort to dispel persistent gossip suggesting that the couple are not conjugally compatible.
      • Notwithstanding this clinching adjuration to the Christian marriage ceremony, the play of moral forces to which many who are conjugally united are subjected brings every year a procession of penitents into the divorce courts.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin conjugalis, from conjux, conjug- 'spouse', from con- 'together'+ jugum 'a yoke'.

  • Conjugal is based on the Latin word jugum ‘yoke’. The word comes from Latin conjugalis, from conjux ‘spouse’.

 
 

Definition of conjugal in US English:

conjugal

adjectiveˈkänjəɡəlˈkɑndʒəɡəl
  • Relating to marriage or the relationship of a married couple.

    conjugal loyalty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Those who have not enjoyed conjugal relations in a while should start to feel especially nervous.
    • Husbands had the right to dispose of conjugal property, including property the wife brought to the union, as they saw fit.
    • Valentine's Day used to be known as a kitsch, childish and generally innocent celebration where teenagers sent themselves cards and married couples enjoyed biannual conjugal relations.
    • I'm sure his wife was overwhelmingly grateful to be relieved of conjugal duties after thirty-five years of marriage.
    • A broader preoccupation with conjugal relationships in Victorian politics, literature, and art was probably also a factor.
    • The conjugal vision of marriage itself is being stamped as discriminatory and bigoted.
    • The reader must then take up the baton, receive the message of this missive which has been addressed to her and thus respond to the invitation to have conjugal relations with the text.
    • He should then explain to the boy and girl individually their respective conjugal duties as husband and wife.
    • In these smaller conjugal families, the roles of husbands and wives feature greater equality and more sharing of responsibilities.
    • Women have a degree of material and psychological security but suffer complete instability in conjugal relationships.
    • This may explain their higher rates of separation and divorce and their lower levels of satisfaction with conjugal relations and sexuality.
    • The writer himself says of the conjugal relationship, ‘This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the Church.’
    • The story confirms a preference for the unconsummated love of a distant, but admired object, over the conjugal relationship.
    • A person with whom you've lived for a period of 12 months or more in a conjugal relationship is generally considered to be a common-law spouse.
    • The conjugal relation portrayed between husband and wife differs in both its commensal and sexual aspects from a quotidian union.
    • The father is formally the head of the household, but more equal conjugal relations are common among younger couples.
    • Actually, we expect that Canadian homosexual couples will behave like Canadian heterosexual couples and see marriage as one of many conjugal options, each with its benefits and drawbacks.
    • Unlike blood relationships, the conjugal relationship is chosen by the parties.
    • Both parties were getting involved in a second conjugal relationship.
    • If you are going to live with this girl in a conjugal relationship (look it up in the dictionary, James) then it's high time you took a good hard look at yourself and your miserable nature.
    Synonyms
    marital, matrimonial, nuptial, marriage, married, wedded, connubial, bridal

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin conjugalis, from conjux, conjug- ‘spouse’, from con- ‘together’ + jugum ‘a yoke’.

 
 
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