Meanings
nounwedbreach (uncountable)
alternative wed-breach · alternative wed breach
- dialectalrareuncountableAdultery.
[…] it wasn't wedbreach he minded, that was all in the way o'life; but as for Hiram and hisn, he'd as soon feed a hole in hell as fill their empty stomachs.
1897, Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, Love in the Backwoods
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Origin
From wed + breach. Compare English spousebreach (“adultery”), Old English ǣwbryċe (“adultery”).
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APA
wedbreach. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedbreach
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“wedbreach.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedbreach. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wedbreach,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedbreach.
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