conjugal rights

plural noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of conjugal rights¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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.

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"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.

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

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"And remember that as a 'vert you have no conjugal rights," to which remark the other did not reply.

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She files a petition for restitution of conjugal rights.

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