connubial

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/
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/kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/ · /kəˈnu.bi.əl/

Definition of connubial

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or relating to the state of being married.
    “"For my part," continued the Duke of Wharton, "I hold that the connubial system of this country is a complete mistake. The only happy marriages I ever heard of are those in some Eastern story I once read, where the king marries a new wife every night, and cuts off her head in the morning."”
    “Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.”
    “A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]”

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Etymology

1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”).

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