Connubial meaning

kə-no͝o'bē-əl, -nyo͝o'-
The definition of connubial is the state of being married.

An example of connubial is the relationship between a woman and her husband.

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Relating to marriage or the married state; conjugal.
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Of marriage or the state of being married; conjugal.
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Of or relating to the state of being married.
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Origin of connubial

  • Latin cōnūbiālis from cōnūbium marriage com- com- nūbere to marry
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • 1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho- (“to marry, to wed”).
    From Wiktionary

Connubial Sentence Examples

  • connubial happiness?

  • The Magyar clergy was still a married clergy, and their connubial privileges were solemnly confirmed by the synod of Szabolcs, presided over by the king, in 1092.

  • The connubial relations of the deities may thus be considered" to typify the mystical union of the two eternal principles, spirit and matter, for the production and reproduction of the universe."But whilst this privilege of divine worship was claimed for the consorts of all the gods, it is principally to Siva's consort, in one or other of her numerous forms, that adoration on an extensive scale came to be offered by a special sect of votaries, the Saktas.

  • Other connubial speculations foundered on the personal dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to Holstein of her beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.

  • connubial bliss: the human couple in tight embrace, each with the other by the throat.

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