conjugial

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UK/kənˈdʒuːɡɪəl/UK/kənˈdʒuːdʒɪəl/

A form of conjugal — Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.

OriginLatin coniugiālis →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

adjectiveconjugial (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of conjugal used by Swedenborg and his followers, used to distinguish their ideas about marital relations.

    When this conjunction, which is of the interiors, descends into the inferiors, which are of the body, it is perceived and felt as love; that love is conjugial love.

    1875, Emanuel Swedenborg (tr. unknown), Heaven and its wonders and Hell, page 246
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    [I]n common scortation, or simple adultery, there is not a love analogous to conjugial love, for it is only a heat of the flesh, which instantly defervesces, and sometimes does not leave any trace of love behind it towards it's object; […] It is otherwise in the case of polygamical scortation; herein there is a love analogous to conjugial love, for it doth not defervesce, is not dissipated, nor doth it pass off into nothing after effervescence, as the foregoing, but it remains, renews, and strengthens itself, and so far takes away from love to the wife, and in the place thereof induces cold towards the wife; […]

    1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of Concubinage”, in [anonymous], transl., The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: […] Translated from the Latin […], London: […] R. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, paragraph 466, page 431

    Claiming that he had ‘new information from heaven’, Swedenborg revealed that pre-marital sex with prostitutes or a mistress is not sinful, as long as the man maintains a belief in true conjugial love.

    2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 156

Origin

  1. Latinconiugiālis
  2. Englishconjugial

From Latin coniugiālis, from coniugium (“connection, marriage”).

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