connubial

comparative more connubial · superlative most connubial

1. Of or relating to the state of being married.

   A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]

   1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 7.1, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 175

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   "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."

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 179–180

   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.

   1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13

   Synonyms: conjugal