Wedlock

Definitions

1. The state of being married.
   countable, uncountable
2. A wife; a married woman.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If I were about to marry⟳, I should try⟳ it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view⟳ to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.”

“Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love⟳ in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);”

“that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]”

“Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?”

“What is it then but that desire which God put⟳ into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw⟳ it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put⟳ off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock.”

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