The Erinyes and the ruthless Fates, For Helen's spousals madly wroth, through Troy Dart on wild wings.
Thyself didst bring to pass Those spousals of a Goddess: on that day All we Immortals feasted there, and gave Gifts passing-fair.
By the unbending Parents of the Maid, 240 To secret 'spousals meanly disavowed.
Let dull Octavia Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong For Roman laws to break.
But such spousals could be converted into valid matrimony by the cohabitation of the parties; and this, instead of being looked upon as reprehensible, seems to have been treated as a laudable action, and to be by all means encouraged.
Contract Spousals de praesenti, there is Matrimony always contracted, although the words import but future Consent only.
Spousals contracted during Infancy are utterly void, whether the Infants themselves, or their Parents for them, do make the Contract.
On the other hand, spousalscontracted between infancy and the "ripe" years of twelve or fourteen are voidable by either spouse when that age is reached.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spousals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
