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Definition of Spousing
1. spouse [v] - See also: spouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spousing
Literary usage of Spousing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"spousing, part. adj. Of or belonging to a bride ; [espousing, bridal. ...
ж spousing girdle. ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"spousing, part. adj. Of or belonging to a put out one's fortune to nurse. ...
a spousing girdle. ..."
3. The Lancet (1860)
"... been now carefully examined, it was deemed right not to explore the case any
further. By pressure and spousing,nearly all the blood was removed from the ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Pius showed his resentment by «spousing the side of Turkey in the struggle of
that country with the Russian power. On the 3d June, Is'7, he celebrated the ..."
5. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland (1885)
"In the eleventh hundred year and fifty-two After Ciod on earth came, this spousing
was ado; The next year after that, Henry his power uom, [tooki And with ..."
6. Early English Romances in Verse by Edith Rickert (1908)
"Her father and mother and many more came with her, and also the bishop of that
land to do the spousing.2 [The marriage feast was held with great splendour ..."
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