Definition of Conjugal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband. "Conjugal visits"

Exact synonyms: Connubial
Partainyms: Marriage, Marriage

Definition of Conjugal

1. a. Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

Definition of Conjugal

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conjugal

1. pertaining to marriage [adj] - See also: marriage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conjugal

conjoined unequal twins
conjoinedly
conjoiner
conjoiners
conjoining
conjoins
conjoint
conjoint therapy
conjointed
conjointly
conjointment
conjointness
conjubilant
conjugacy
conjugal (current term)
conjugal cancer
conjugal family
conjugal visitation
conjugal visitation rights
conjugal visits
conjugalities
conjugally
conjugant
conjugants
conjugase
conjugases

Literary usage of Conjugal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Isabel Eaton (1899)
"conjugal Condition.—The following table gives the facts in the matter of conjugal ... It is based upon 2289 records (see page 491): Comparing the conjugal ..."

2. Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela by Joanne Mariner (1997)
"conjugal Visits Venezuela, like many other countries in Latin America, has a permissive policy of allowing male prisoners conjugal visits.200 In most ..."

3. Primitive Love and Love-stories by Henry Theophilus Finck (1899)
"MISTAKES REGARDING conjugal LOVE HAVING distinguished romantic or sentimental love from sentimentality on one side and sensuality on the other, ..."

4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The conjugal relation between Christ and the saints, Cant. ii. 10. Isa. liv. ... Now this the Scripture manifests to be by the way of a conjugal relation. ..."

5. Comparative Legal Philosophy Applied to Legal Institutions by Luigi Miraglia (1912)
"Family is Divided into the Paternal and conjugal Relations. ... These relations are the conjugal and the parental. The conjugal relation is the object of ..."

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