What does wedlock mean?
Wedlock means The state of being married..
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/ˈwɛd.lɒk/ · noun
The state of being married..
If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.
Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]
Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?
What is it then but that desire which God put into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock.
Use wedlock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wedlock means The state of being married..
Common synonyms include matrimony, marriage, union.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.
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