hymeneal
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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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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There are, we take it, about three ways which lead to what the provincial reporter delights to term “the hymeneal altar.”
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
Freddy has said many a charming thing about the pear-blossom; about nature's awakening; about the hymeneal birds—things that, as Prue says, are almost poetry just as he speaks them, without any alteration.
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
To my dark lot no bridal joys Belong, nor e’er the jocund noise p. 50Of hymeneal chant shall sound for me, But death, cold death, my only spouse shall be.
From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Kingsley, Charles
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
The value of living—which is loving; the sacredest wonders of life; all that is fairest and of best delight in thought, in feeling, yea, in substance,—all are apprehended under the floral crown and hymeneal veil.
From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington
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