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CONJUGAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband

Example:

conjugal visits

Synonyms:

conjugal; connubial

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

marriage (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mrs. Norris, most happy to assist in the duties of the day, by spending it at the Park to support her sister's spirits, and drinking the health of Mr. and Mrs. Rushworth in a supernumerary glass or two, was all joyous delight; for she had made the match; she had done everything; and no one would have supposed, from her confident triumph, that she had ever heard of conjugal infelicity in her life, or could have the smallest insight into the disposition of the niece who had been brought up under her eye.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)