hymeneal
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of hymeneal
1595–1605; < Latin hymenae ( us ) (< Greek hyménaios wedding song, equivalent to Hymen Hymen + -aios pertaining to) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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This contribution of Swinburne's,—the hymeneal touch,—and Murray's discovery that the word God could be introduced with effect anywhere, went like wildfire over England.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
Since that time their happiness has never had the least interruption; except from the hymeneal expedition of my friend Henry.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia
In 1782 he led the amiable and accomplished Miss Elliott to the hymeneal altar and located at the ancestral seat of his wife at Sandy Hill in South Carolina.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
But when that her heart was all his own, his love grew cold, and, turning from her, he refused to fulfil his plighted troth and lead her to the hymeneal altar.
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
Men will stand mateless, and the ruins of the hymeneal altars everywhere crumble mournfully away, and be known to tradition only by their vanishing inscriptions: "To the unknown god."
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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