Meaning of conjugial | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“[I]n common scortation, or simple adultery, there is not a love⟳ analogous to conjugial love⟳, for it is only a heat of the flesh, which instantly defervesces, and sometimes does not leave⟳ any trace of love⟳ behind it towards it's object; […] It is otherwise in the case of polygamical scortation; herein there is a love⟳ analogous to conjugial love⟳, for it doth not defervesce, is not dissipated, nor doth it pass⟳ off into nothing after effervescence, as the foregoing, but it remains, renews, and strengthens itself, and so far takes away from love⟳ to the wife, and in the place⟳ thereof induces cold towards the wife; […]”

“When this conjunction, which is of the interiors, descends into the inferiors, which are of the body, it is perceived and felt as love⟳; that love⟳ is conjugial love⟳.”

“Claiming that he had ‘new information from heaven’, Swedenborg revealed that pre-marital sex with prostitutes or a mistress is not sinful, as long as the man maintains a belief in true conjugial love⟳.”

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