Conjugality

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being conjugal. countable, uncountable

    "He moved a step to her side and bent down to kiss her forehead. The automatic conjugality of the daily kiss might have a good effect. That was what he though, if he thought at all."

  2. 2
    The conjugal state; marriage; sexual intercourse. countable, uncountable

    "And if it be true both in divinity and law, that consent alone, though copulation never follow, makes a marriage; how can they dissolve it for the want of that which made it not, and not dissolve it for that not continuing which made it and should preserve it in love and reason, and difference it from a brute conjugality?"

Example

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"He moved a step to her side and bent down to kiss her forehead. The automatic conjugality of the daily kiss might have a good effect. That was what he though, if he thought at all."

Etymology

From conjugal + -ity.

Related phrases

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