wedlock

wedlock
Synonyms and related words:
a world-without-end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wifehood

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  • Wedlock — may refer to: * Marriage * Wedlock (album), an album by Sunburned Hand of the Man * Wedlock (film), directed by Lewis Teague * Billy Wedlock, an English footballer * Fred Wedlock, an English folk singer …   Wikipedia

  • Wedlock — Wed lock, n. [AS. wedl[=a]c a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + l[=a]c a gift, an offering. See {Wed}, n., and cf. {Lake}, v. i., {Knowledge}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. That blissful yoke . . . that… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wedlock — ► NOUN ▪ the state of being married. ● born in (or out of) wedlock Cf. ↑born out of wedlock ORIGIN Old English, «marriage vow» …   English terms dictionary

  • Wedlock — Wed lock, v. t. To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] Man thus wedlocked. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wedlock — index cohabitation (married state), matrimony Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • wedlock — O.E. wedlac pledge giving, marriage vow, from wed + lac, noun suffix meaning actions or proceedings, practice, attested in about a dozen O.E. compounds (Cf. feohtlac warfare ), but this is the only surviving example. Suffix altered by folk… …   Etymology dictionary

  • wedlock — *marriage, matrimony, nuptial, espousal, wedding …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • wedlock — [n] marriage alliance, association, conjugality, connubiality, coupling, espousal, holy matrimony, mating, matrimony, nuptials, spousal, union, wedded bliss*, wedding; concepts 297,388 …   New thesaurus

  • wedlock — [wed′läk΄] n. [ME wedlok < OE wedlac < wed, a compact, pledge + lac, an offering, gift, akin to ON leikr, play, Goth laiks, a dance < IE base * leig , to leap, hop > Sans rḗjatē, (he) hops] the state of being married; matrimony …   English World dictionary

  • wedlock — n. 1) to join in wedlock 2) out of wedlock (born out of wedlock) * * * [ wedlɒk] to join in wedlock out of wedlock (born out of wedlock) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Wedlock — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Wedlock Produktionsland USA …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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