Meaning of one flesh | Babel Free

Definitions

Two people united by marriage.

idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“"This is reasonable and natural," returned Pathfinder; ". . . A woman would be likely to follow the man to whom she had plighted faith, and husband and wife are one flesh."”

“Mary: Have not I been the fast friend of your life Since mine began, and it was thought we two Might make one flesh, and cleave unto each other As man and wife?”

“We know Christ's saying of the married that they are one flesh!”

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