as in marriage
a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people
joined the happy couple in holy wedlock
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Recent Examples of wedlock
Women brought the victims to her, babies born out of wedlock, perhaps one too many for a household or the mother too young.
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
But he was instead mired in scandal, including mounting debts and lawsuits and backlash from two children born out of wedlock.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Her father lost a leg in World War I, her mother was born out of wedlock, and her grandmother once labored in a workhouse for the poor.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
That’s key because being born out of wedlock back then meant he was not allowed to go to the university, and therefore he doesn’t get spoiled by academic silos.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
But he was instead mired in scandal, including mounting debts and lawsuits and backlash from two children born out of wedlock.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Her father lost a leg in World War I, her mother was born out of wedlock, and her grandmother once labored in a workhouse for the poor.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
That’s key because being born out of wedlock back then meant he was not allowed to go to the university, and therefore he doesn’t get spoiled by academic silos.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Wedlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedlock. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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