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Hymeneal

//hʌɪməˈniːəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to marriage.

    "I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to sexual relations.

    "Although the whole earth, not we alone, is moved by passions hymeneal, and everything terrestrial has come into being by the one common road, yet there is that ridiculous tendency to close the eyes and turn away the head as if there were something unclean in nature itself."

  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to the hymen.

    "‘It doesn't seem to qualify as a haemorrhage,’ he said, with his usual cocky certainty. ‘Just heavy hymeneal bleeding, I'd say.’"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to a wedding or marriage wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.

    "For her white virgins hymeneals sing, / To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, / And melts in visions of eternal day."

  2. 2
    a wedding hymn wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.

Etymology 2

From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.

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