vincture

plural vinctures

1. obsoleteA binding.

   […] this treaty is a mere vincture to those who have adhered to the Hague; then what object has the article following […]

   1902, Organization of the Conference: Projects, Reports, Motions, Debates and Resolutions, page 307

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   […] no gentler vinctures fettered her to her second home, except the sweet tie of her motherhood. All the dreams, all the betrayed hopes of her past flew to the cradle[…]

   1895, Aroda Reym, A Life Contrast, page 172

   […] the pledge of a moral padlock or the knotted string of a legal contract […] the vincture of marriage, while somewhere in the background a pale verger lent his tongue to the murmured responses. No joyful voices praised the Lord. A bended knee, a clasp of hands, a ring, a few words made luminous with love[…]

   1956, Reginald Spencer Ellery, The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: Private Papers of a Psychiatrist