conjugal rights

American  

plural noun

1. the sexual rights and privileges conferred on spouses by the marriage bond.

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Etymology

Origin of conjugal rights

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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conjugal rights

The ecclesiastical 342 courts, however, wholly disregarded such agreements, and considered them as affording no answer to a suit for restitution of conjugal rights.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

But in spite of the success of the suggestion of the church dignitary, and the subsequent concession of conjugal rights, Heaven did not see fit to bless the union.

From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando

You might sue for a restitution of conjugal rights, I suppose, but if you drag this thing into the courts I’ll fight it out to the end.

From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

The Council of Eliberis commanded abstinence from conjugal rights for three or four or seven days before the communion.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock

Your course, therefore, is to sue for your conjugal rights: it will be the prettiest case of the century.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles