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Definition of Sponsal
1. a. Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Definition of Sponsal
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sponsal
1. pertaining to marriage [adj] - See also: marriage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sponsal
Literary usage of Sponsal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"majesty, as n sponsal present by lier, of exquisite design as 1o its general
form, ahd poetically embellished with grouts in relief, signifying Birth, ..."
2. Institutes of the Laws of Holland by Joannes van der Linden, Jabez Henry (1828)
"Van Keizer Karel (of the Emperor Charles V.) Oct. 4, 1540. Art. 17. Polit. Ord.
1580. Art. 3. (2) Voet, ad tit. ff. de sponsal, No. 6-10. ..."
3. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"They were demanded, too, by Neleus, as a sponsal gift ... son of Antenor gave
first of all among the sponsal presents, a hundred oxen to his father-in-law. ..."
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