- spousals
- Mutual promises to marry.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
spousals
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spousals — n. pl. Nuptials, espousals, marriage, wedding … New dictionary of synonyms
spousals — /spawzalz/ In old English law, mutual promises to marry … Black's law dictionary
Spousal — Spous al, n. [See {Espousal}, {Spouse}.] Marriage; nuptials; espousal; generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden. [1913 Webster] Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spousal — spousally, adv. /spow zeuhl/, n. 1. Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials. adj. 2. nuptial; matrimonial. [1250 1300; ME spousaille, aph. var. of ESPOUSAILLE ESPOUSAL] * * * … Universalium
Christian views on marriage — Orthodox betrothal depicted by Vasily Vladimirovich Pukirev, 1862. Christian views on marriage typically regard it as instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife, and is to be held … Wikipedia
banns — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, affiance, banns of matrimony, betrothal, betrothment, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, elopement, engagement, epithalamium, espousal,… … Moby Thesaurus
civil ceremony — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, banns, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil wedding, elopement, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, honeymoon, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites,… … Moby Thesaurus
elopement — Synonyms and related words: AWOL, French leave, Gretna Green wedding, absence without leave, absquatulation, banns, bolt, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, decampment, desertion,… … Moby Thesaurus
espousal — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, acceptance, adoption, advocacy, affiance, affiliation, aid, approval, banns, banns of matrimony, betrothal, betrothing, betrothment, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding,… … Moby Thesaurus
honeymoon — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, banns, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, elopement, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites … Moby Thesaurus
