marital congress

Definitions

Sexual intercourse as performed by two people married to each other.

uncountable

Examples

“The ardent desire which he felt to bring⟳ about that consummation of their mutual wishes led him into inordinate excess in his marital congress, and his spermatic secretion was consequently thin, and very deficient in spermatozoa.”

“The labia may also be greatly enlarged from elephantiasis or from the presence of fibrous, cystic, or other tumors, so as to prevent⟳ marital congress.”

“Such instances of incompleteness of the marital act are most frequently to be explained by the nervous terror of the patient , and her refusal to submit⟳ to the act of marital congress.”

“Authorities on obstetrics, on the contrary, say⟳ that one of the causes of abortion in the early months of pregnancy is marital congress; and one of the sources of sepsis in women, which may result⟳ in the death of both mother and child.”

“the generation of children . . . is achieved by marital congress”

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