connubial
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- connubiality noun
- connubially adverb
- nonconnubial adjective
- nonconnubiality noun
- nonconnubially adverb
- postconnubial adjective
- preconnubial adjective
Etymology
Origin of connubial
First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin cōn(n)ūbiālis, equivalent to cōn(n)ūbi(um) “marriage” + -ālis adjective suffix; co-, nuptial, -al 1
Example Sentences
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Who would know better than Eliot that connubial happiness in the capital can sometimes cost a woman her reputation back in the Midlands?
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018
My father, it appears, was not naturally connubial, and even in the early years of marriage contrived to be more absent than present.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2017
She has taken on her husband’s signature pout, in a connubial version of people who grow to look like their dogs.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
“Marry Him” is more measured than its explosive title suggests; and the Times piece at least allows that culture might play a role in how equality influences the connubial bed.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2014
For we weary of his patter, Growing every moment flatter, On such subjects as connubial infelicity, And we find ourselves protesting Against everlasting jesting On the tragedies of conjugal duplicity.
From Familiar Faces by Graham, Harry
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