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Wedlock

wedlock

1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. That blissful yoke . . . That men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife? (Shak)

2. A wife; a married woman.

Synonym: See marriage.

Origin: AS. Wedlac a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge _ lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, and cf. Lake, Knowledge.


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i think you shouldnt masturbate because it makes you go blind instead get a girlfriend I'd rather go blind than have a child out of wedlock and possibly ruin his life and the life of my girlfriend. It's probably harder to practice abstinence with a girlfriend. Maybe if she wasn't beautiful, ...

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