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Definition of Connubially
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Connubially
Literary usage of Connubially
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"FOB THE connubially INCLINED.—What is the difference between an accepted and a
rejected offer of marriage ? The first leads to the Matrimonial Knot ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"That rogue Cupid must have gone sparrow-hunting to the neglect of his proper
business, for so many connubially-inclined spinsters to be sighing for mates ..."
3. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Classical, Mediæval, Legendary; Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... monarch of Japan had instituted against flirting: So he decreed In words succinct.
That all who flirted, leered or winked, Unless connubially linked ..."
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