Wedlock

Word WEDLOCK
Character 7
Hyphenation wed lock
Pronunciations /ˈwɛd.lɒk/

Definitions and meanings of "Wedlock"

What do we mean by wedlock?

The state of being married; matrimony. noun

(out of wedlock) Of parents not legally married to each other. idiom

To unite in marriage; marry.

Marriage; matrimony; the married state; the vows and sacrament of marriage. Sometimes used attributively. noun

A wife. noun

Synonyms Matrimony, Wedding, etc. See marriage. noun

To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. transitive verb

The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. noun

A wife; a married woman. noun

The state of being married; matrimony. noun

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) noun

The state of being married.

A wife; a married woman.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Wedlock

The word "wedlock" in example sentences

The President would give away his first born (in wedlock and wanted) grandchild to some sucker representative to bring in the hold out state andbingo! ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact — ­figure it out for yourself — ­they were actually married, by a Church of England dominie, and living in wedlock, about the same moment that you were squalling your first post-birth squalls in this world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In return, he craved my antecedents and residence, pried into my private life, insolently demanded how many children had I and did I live in wedlock, and asked divers other unseemly and degrading questions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was born in wedlock, but all I can get from the state is a COLB, and I was born in the 1950s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Having extra marital affairs out of wedlock is a way of promoting family values, according to the Republican dictionary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do we want the sort of rigid social mores where a child born out of wedlock is a scandal, so the baby is snatched away at birth, and the mother sent to live in an institution for the unsound of mind? ❋ Unknown (2008)

I wonder what it is you ejaculate when performing your Church-approved, monogamous, heterosexual intercourse (missionary position and in wedlock only, please!), nothing but hot air? ❋ Unknown (2008)

This time, she plays a lady doctor who (among many other things) gets pregnant out of wedlock from the hunky and married Lyle Talbot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both his parents are living (and had him in wedlock). ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can tell you where most of them aren't: in wedlock with the woman they spent a season wooing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Having a child out of wedlock is indeed not d end of the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thought sometimes like mrs. rosemary said some times I do get discouraged by my family (my sisters) and because I'm african-american. where I live my parents and about 4 other couples are married the rest having children out of wedlock is common and marriage is laughed at. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Bearing a child out of wedlock is so accepted today that some of the most respected professional-class women I know have done so intentionally. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Income, poverty and often "racism" are ascribed as the real determinants for such social pathologies by guilty white liberals; but choosing to not have children out of wedlock is one of several important ways a woman of any color can increase her odds of sidestepping poverty. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But my sire hearkened not to his say, for that he had sought me in wedlock and I consented not that he be baron and I femme. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now the reason of this was, that after the Princess had been bestowed in wedlock upon the Wazir who had gone in to her that night, the ❋ Unknown (2006)

So they told Abd al-Rahman of her and he and the notables repaired to her father and sought her in wedlock of him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Hayat al-Nufus, in wedlock for his son Ardashir, wherefore, if thou consent to this proposal and accept of him, do thou agree with me for her marriage-portion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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