conjugal rights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of conjugal rights
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Reade
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
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
Wearing apparel, furniture, jewelry, even legal expenses incurred in regaining her conjugal rights have been included.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
"And remember that as a 'vert you have no conjugal rights," to which remark the other did not reply.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
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