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Wedlock

//ˈwɛd.lɒk// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being married. countable, uncountable

    "If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man."

  2. 2
    the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) wordnet
  3. 3
    A wife; a married woman. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]"

Etymology

From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.

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