For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.
Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon term for matrimony.
For wedlock has its fruit thirtyfold in heaven, widowhood sixtyfold; maidenhood with a hundredfold overpasses both.
A car of special design is furnished by each community in which each bridal pair spends the Wedlock Ride, or the Honey-Moon, as we would call it.
It decides the marital destiny of each person, and no two are recommended to join in wedlock until they have been pronounced physical and mental mates by the official psychologists.
Other betrothal shall dissolve, Wedlock of will decay; Only the keeper of this seal Conquers mortality.
No, the Almighty had His own ways with His children, and this great mystery of holy wedlock was one of them.
The love in which husband and wife contract to hold each other in holy wedlock is typified by the love of Christ for His Church, and as the one can never be broken, neither can the other.
Presently the news reached his sire, who said to him, "O my son, this maiden to whom thy heart cleaveth is at thy command and we have power over her; so wait till I demand her in wedlock for thee.
He had had no leisure to spare for thoughts of wedlock at all.
He had never seriously thought of marriage, although in those days wedlockwas entered upon very young if there were any advantage to be gained from it.
Albrecht will not give up Agnes, nor Agnes give up him; Ernst respects the sacrament of wedlock by which they are united, and only after two and a half years does he sign the warrant by which Agnes was duly condemned to death.
The law of France regards a child born one hundred and eighty days after wedlock as not only capable of living, but as legitimate and worthy of all legal and civil rights.
She was at last assigned in wedlock to Menelaus, by whom she conceived her only earthly child, Hermione.
Thetis is given inwedlock to the mortal Peleus, and Achilles is born.
For many years Oedipus ruled Thebes like a great and warlike prince; and to him and Jocasta in wedlock were born two daughters and two sons--Antigone and Ismene, Polyneices and Eteocles.
Hunding has wakened From slumber deep; Kinsmen and hounds He summons together; How the dogs howl, Urged on hotly, Loud-baying to heaven Of the vows and the wedlock profaned!
But why wail over Wedlockand vows, Since by thee the first they are scorned!
It is as if my father would incline me to marriage with the damsel who was with me and have now taken her away by stealth, to the intent that my desire for wedlock may redouble.
As the bonds of wedlock had made him responsible for the welfare of his wife, even so had this covenant with death rendered him accountable for the peace of her spirit.
Their brief union had been a very communion of souls--one of those rare experiences in wedlock for jealousy of which Destiny may almost be pardoned.
I know the brutal words that embittered my husband's death; and were there no other cause, they would render wedlock with him who spoke them sacrilege.
And at the same time you can take measures, in concert with this young lady, for loosing the wedlock so unhappily contracted.
On the other hand, in contempt of womanhood and in mockery of wedlock was produced a mass of prose and verse coarse and unclean beyond description.
History all too plainly shows that the benefits conferred by monasticism and the enforced celibacy of the secular clergy come far short of balancing the evils flowing from the conception of wedlock as a "remedy for concupiscence.
The theory of the sacramental character of wedlock had two consequences of vast importance for the history of matrimonial law.
Hence it is that among many peoples "true conjugal life does not begin before a child is born;" and there are other races who "consider that the birth of a child out of wedlock makes it obligatory for the parents to marry.
All persons on reaching the years of puberty were declared capable of wedlock solely on their own authority.
But the obstacles placed by the bill in the way of free wedlock will have still other disastrous consequences.
Now Daśaratha’s pious mind Meet wedlock for his sons designed; With priests and friends the king began To counsel and prepare his plan.
I have helped join men and women in wedlock according to the customs of various sects and nations.
Long made one by the wedlock of mutual and plighted faith, their marriage in Georgia was yet "null and void" by the laws of that "Christian State.
Twelfth Night, have been cited as involving some reference to the Poet's own case, or as having been suggested by what himself had experienced of the evils resulting from the wedlock of persons "misgraffed in respect of years.
Danaus, sprung from Io of Argos, flees from Egypt with his fifty daughters who avoid wedlock with the fifty sons of Aegyptus.
A nurse tells the story of Jason's cooling love for Medea and of his intended wedlock with the daughter of Creon, King of Corinth, the scene of the play.
Yours is not the custom of wooers in former days who were wont to sue for wedlock with the daughter of a rich man and contend among themselves.
And yet he ostentatiously extols marriage as “holy and Divine,” and even says that wedlock is most pleasing to God, a mystery and Sacrament in the highest sense of the word.
Was Judith's thirst for wedlock intense enough to run such a risk?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wedlock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
