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connubial

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9 lettersPronunciation /kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/Part of speech adverb, adjectiveSorted abcilnnouStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. in a conjugal manner

Word origin

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 *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”).

Used in a sentence

  • Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.
  • A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]

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