conjugal rights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of conjugal rights
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?
From Ulysses by James Joyce
With respect to conjugal rights they are religiously strict; no person is allowed to have a woman on board, unless married to her according to their laws.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
Refusal to name owner, 19. of conjugal rights, 141.
From The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
The claim of jealousy falls with the claim of conjugal rights.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
In 1884 the legislature interfered to prevent imprisonment being the result of disobedience to an order for restitution of conjugal rights.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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