spousals

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Seuenthly, he despightfully abaseth our solemnizings of marriages, spousals, birth-dayes, and our customes at burials.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard

Unlike what he bore me, he said, indeed,   That was not true which he for her displayed;   But so pretending love, he hoped to speed,   And celebrate due spousals with the maid.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

This can only be explained by the rules current at the time regarding spousals.

From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred

The Erinyes and the ruthless Fates,   For Helen's spousals madly wroth, through Troy   Dart on wild wings.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

He maketh revels and feasts and spousals, and giveth many good gifts to friends and guests, and comforteth and gladdeth his guests with songs and pipes and other minstrelsy of music.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert