spousals

Example Sentences

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

From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred

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

The fame of this extraordinary conjunction spread all over the county; and, on the day appointed for their spousals, the church was surrounded by an inconceivable multitude.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

In one is seen the spousals of Santa Caterina, a piece so extremely infantile, that it would be difficult to find a similar example in Italy.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio

There reigned throughout, an order and purity, an orderly disposition, as if by way of making ready for some gracious spousals.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Pater, Walter