Meaning of Nuptials | Babel Free

Definitions

A wedding ceremony.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“To Night, to Night, this fatal Moment, novv / Our dreadful Father's Nuptials are preparing, / And I muſt loſe bright Monima for ever.”

“I hope⟳ you will not think⟳ it is any manner of disrespect to your person or merit, that the intended nuptials between us are interrupted. My father says he has a much better offer⟳ for me than you can make⟳, and has ordered me to break⟳ off the treaty between us.”

“[O]f five talents he had, gave two and a half in marriage with an only daughter he had of his own⟳, and two and a half in marriage with the daughter of Eudamidas, and in one and the same day solemnized both their nupitals.”

“This Sultan [Abdul Hamid II], who [Pierre] Loti always admired, had, according to the author, graciously and magnanimously permitted both women to choose⟳ their husbands. The cousins celebrated their nupitals together, and then moved into adjoining palaces which the Sultan had built for them.”

10th Turkish History Congress: Ankara, 22–26 September 1986: Reported to the Congress

“We got hitched many years back / […] / The rains were severe that day / and the wild winds inclement / but the nuptials still took place⟳.”

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