epithalamium
noun
epithalamiums
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pluralof epithalamium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Thinke yee St. Augustine would have steyned his graver learning with a booke of Poetry, had he fancied its dearest end to be the vanity of love-sonnets and epithalamiums?
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
We come now to the three celebrated epithalamiums of Catullus.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
From those votaries of Hymen who were honoured with his epithalamiums, he received a small reward.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
This nuptial hymn has been the model of many epithalamiums, particularly that of Jason and Creusa, sung by the chorus in Seneca’s Medea, and of Honorius and Maria, in Claudian.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Come, let me have the Sea-Fight; I like that better than a thousand of your wanton epithalamiums.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
