hymeneal
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He was twice married, but at what period his first hymeneal union occurred we are not informed—it was inauspicious.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
The arena allotted for this hymeneal contest, was a level space in front of the village-inn, and near the centre of a grass-plat, reserved in the midst of the village denominated "the green."
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
What would the world say when it should have become known that he intended to lead Lady Frances to the "hymeneal altar?"
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
Men will stand mateless, and the ruins of the hymeneal altars everywhere crumble mournfully away, and be known to tradition only by their vanishing inscriptions: "To the unknown god."
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
By numbers sought,—averse alike to all; Impatient of their suit, through forests wild, And groves, in maiden ignorance she roams; Nor cares for Cupid, nor hymeneal rites, Nor soft connubial joys.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
