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Definition of Wedlock

Wedlock

  1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
  2. A wife; a married woman.
  3. To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

Wedlock Quotations

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Heraclitus

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Christopher Morley

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman
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Wedlock Translations

wedlock in German is Ehe
wedlock in Spanish is casamiento

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