Meanings
- pluralplural of hymeneal
- pluralplural onlyNuptials.
“Indeed she will have to do without me,” he added, thinking rather of his studies in Carrara, than of his Barchester hymeneals.
1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 1651 more example
To this he wrote an answer as short, expressing his ardent wishes that those winter hymeneals might produce nothing but happiness, and saying that he would not be in town many days before he knocked at the door of No. 52, Grosvenor Place.
1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2006 Gutenberg eBook Edition
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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