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  2. Wedlock is the state of being married. The term is rarely used by itself simply to refer to the state of marriage other than in very formal religious contexts. Instead, wedlock is most commonly used in criticism of the actions of couples who are not married, most especially in the phrase born out of wedlock —meaning born when one’s parents ...

  3. The noun wedlock means marriage; you might describe your newly-married sister as "entering the magical state of wedlock." Wedlock is an old-fashioned word for matrimony, the state of being married. It comes up most often in the phrase "out of wedlock ," when gossipers are describing a baby born to unmarried parents.

  4. noun. The state of being united as husband and wife: conjugality, connubiality, marriage, matrimony. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus.

  5. Definition of wedlock noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  6. What does the noun wedlock mean? There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun wedlock , three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  7. 4 days ago · noun. 1. the state of being married. 2. See born out of wedlock. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Old English wedlāc, from wedd pledge + -lāc, suffix denoting activity, perhaps from lāc game, battle (related to Gothic laiks dance, Old Norse leikr ) Word Frequency. wedlock in American English.

  8. 5 days ago · wedlock ( countable and uncountable, plural wedlocks) The state of being married . Synonyms: matrimony, marriage. ( obsolete) A wife; a married woman. Derived terms [ edit] bedlock. break wedlock. out of wedlock. Related terms [ edit] bridelock. Translations [ edit] state of being married — see marriage ,‎ matrimony. married woman — see wife.

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