hymeneal
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- unhymeneal adjective
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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Just now his appearance—neat, shabby, pathetic, the superior workingman in his long-preserved, threadbare Sunday clothes—introduced disturbing notes into the swelling hymeneal chant to which Claude felt himself to be marching.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil
Under the glow of torches, surrounded by a joyous company, dancing and singing hymeneal songs, the bride was led to the house of her future husband.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
Suddenly the willows sparkled with diamonds, the grey river became a sheet of silver, the sedge warbler fluted his hymeneal note, and other warblers joined in the chorus.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
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
The singing of a hymeneal song in connection with the wedding festivities was a very ancient custom among the Greeks.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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