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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wedlock \Wed"lock\, verb (used with an object) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] ''Man thus wedlocked.'' --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wedlock \Wed"lock\, noun [AS. wedl[=a]c a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + l[=a]c a gift, an offering. See {Wed}, noun, and cf. {Lake}, verb (used without an object), {Knowledge}.]
1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. ''That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock.'' --Chaucer.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife? --Shak.
2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Syn: See {Marriage}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wedlock
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "wedlock": 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
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