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
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
Ms. Cattrall’s celebrity is the principal reason for what may seem like a premature revival of Coward’s 1930 comedy of connubial fisticuffs, which was staged to splendid advantage on Broadway only nine years ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011
As her temper, though quietly and steadily selfish, was neither sour nor violent, this state of connubial happiness might have continued long, had not some untoward accidents occurred to disturb it.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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