conjugal rights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of conjugal rights
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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When her husband asked the Bombay High Court for "restitution of conjugal rights", she claimed that she couldn't be forced into a marriage that she never consented to because she was so young.
From BBC
"A key suggestion was to mobilise all women in South Sudan to deny their husbands conjugal rights until they ensure that peace returns," the meeting's organisers say in a statement.
From BBC
Your course, therefore, is to sue for your conjugal rights: it will be the prettiest case of the century.
From Project Gutenberg
"And remember that as a 'vert you have no conjugal rights," to which remark the other did not reply.
From Project Gutenberg
She files a petition for restitution of conjugal rights.
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