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WEDLOCK
marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock
(noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); “a long and happy marriage”; “God bless this union”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
wedlock (countable and uncountable, plural wedlocks)
The state of being married.
Synonyms: matrimony, marriage
(obsolete) A wife; a married woman.
Source: Wiktionary
Wed"lock, n. Etym: [AS. wedlac a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., Knowledge.]
1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.
2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Syn.
– See Marriage.
Wed"lock, v. t.
Definition: To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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