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View synonyms for out of wedlock

out of wedlock



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Idioms and Phrases

Of parents not legally married, as in Over the centuries many royal children were born out of wedlock . The noun wedlock , for the state of being married, is rarely heard today except in this phrase, first recorded in 1675; its converse, in wedlock , dates from the 1300s and is even more rarely used.
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Example Sentences

I wouldn't be surprised to see out-of-wedlock childbearing follow a similar course.

Audiences always applaud when he rails against out-of-wedlock childbirth.

Divorce, out-of-wedlock births, and low labor force participation are expensive.

What caused the schism over the out-of-wedlock birth was never explained.

Why, exactly, are the media outing the woman who gave birth to the out-of-wedlock son?

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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