Sponsal

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal. not-comparable, obsolete

    "1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64, The sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians."

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nuptialnuptial

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"1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64, The sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians."

Etymology

From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.

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