'Wedlock' definitions:
Definition of 'wedlock'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock]
Definition of 'Wedlock'
From: GCIDE
- Wedlock \Wed"lock\, n. [AS. wedl[=a]c a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + l[=a]c a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., Knowledge.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Marriage. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wedlock'
From: GCIDE
- Wedlock \Wed"lock\, v. t. To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wedlock'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a world-without-end bargain,
- alliance,
- bed,
- bond of matrimony,
- bridebed,
- cohabitation,
- conjugal bond,
- conjugal knot,
- coverture,
- holy matrimony,
- holy wedlock,
- husbandhood,
- ill-assorted marriage,
- intermarriage,
- interracial marriage,
- marriage,
- marriage bed,
- marriage sacrament,
- match,
- matrimonial union,
- matrimony,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- miscegenation,
- mixed marriage,
- nuptial bond,
- sacrament of matrimony,
- spousehood,
- union,
- wedded bliss,
- wedded state,
- weddedness,
- wedding knot,
- wifehood