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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As a general rule, I don't think a man is justified in interferin' with other people's hymeneal intentions, but it's different when the said intentions is goin' to make your own home a hell.
From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Lardner, Ring
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
Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos—and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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
He was twice married, but at what period his first hymeneal union occurred we are not informed—it was inauspicious.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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