spousals
Example Sentences
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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 Robert Steele
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 T. (Tobias) Smollett
This can only be explained by the rules current at the time regarding spousals.
From Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding
Conceive, Fred, what the fair young creature must have felt at the bare idea of such shocking spousals!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
The Erinyes and the ruthless Fates, For Helen's spousals madly wroth, through Troy Dart on wild wings.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
