conjugal rights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of conjugal rights
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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 Bolles, Albert Sidney
This state of things was partly reformed by the Matrimonial Causes Bill of 1884, and that bill was passed, not to protect women, but men, against punishment for refusal to restore conjugal rights.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
She began an action for restitution of conjugal rights, but she soon tired of that.
From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold
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
"And remember that as a 'vert you have no conjugal rights," to which remark the other did not reply.
From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.
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