spousals

  • 1spousals — n. pl. Nuptials, espousals, marriage, wedding …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 2spousals — /spawzalz/ In old English law, mutual promises to marry …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 3spousals — Mutual promises to marry …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 4Spousal — Spous al, n. [See {Espousal}, {Spouse}.] Marriage; nuptials; espousal; generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden. [1913 Webster] Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 5spousal — spousally, adv. /spow zeuhl/, n. 1. Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials. adj. 2. nuptial; matrimonial. [1250 1300; ME spousaille, aph. var. of ESPOUSAILLE ESPOUSAL] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 6Christian views on marriage — Orthodox betrothal depicted by Vasily Vladimirovich Pukirev, 1862. Christian views on marriage typically regard it as instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife, and is to be held …

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  • 7banns — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, affiance, banns of matrimony, betrothal, betrothment, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, elopement, engagement, epithalamium, espousal,… …

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  • 8civil ceremony — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, banns, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil wedding, elopement, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, honeymoon, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 9elopement — Synonyms and related words: AWOL, French leave, Gretna Green wedding, absence without leave, absquatulation, banns, bolt, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, decampment, desertion,… …

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  • 10espousal — Synonyms and related words: Gretna Green wedding, acceptance, adoption, advocacy, affiance, affiliation, aid, approval, banns, banns of matrimony, betrothal, betrothing, betrothment, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding,… …

    Moby Thesaurus