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hymeneal

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8 lettersPronunciation /hʌɪməˈniːəl/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aeehlmnyStarts with HEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. of or relating to a wedding or marriage

Word origin

From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.

Used in a sentence

  • I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.
  • It seems to me that girls ought to be early taught to discriminate, between the characteristic of a hymeneal connexion and of a dishonourable one apparently resembling it.
  • Mrs. Gereth evidently thought in these days of little but things hymeneal; for she broke out with sudden rapture in the middle of the week: "I know what they'll do: they will marry, but they'll go and live at Waterbath!"

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