Wiktionary
n. The rights and privileges arising from the marital relationship; especially those of love, affection, companionship, comfort and sexual relations.
WordNet
n. the right of married persons to the enjoyment of association and sympathy and confidence and domestic happiness and the comfort of living together and eating meals at the same table and profiting from joint property right and the intimacies of domestic relations
Wikipedia
Conjugal rights may refer to:
- Rights in marriage, related to conjugal responsibilities
- Conjugal visits
- Restitution of conjugal rights
Usage examples of "conjugal rights".
Besides, Jerry and the Poodle were exercising conjugal rights every night.
We do not read that Jacob sought any but one, or that he used many, except for the purpose of begetting offspring, saving conjugal rights.
She had no intention of sleeping with John, and it was plain that he had every intention of claiming his conjugal rights.
After all, Sir Giles could claim that you had refused him his conjugal rights.
But he would take his conjugal rights, and if she dared complain or bemoan her fate, the men who made the laws would shrug and turn away.
She knew no wife should deny her husband his conjugal rights, but one of the joys of Freddie getting up early to go hunting every Saturday meant that she could pretend to be asleep as she did every weekday when he left for work at six-thirty.
If the wife hates sexual intercourse, if she is likely to die of another pregnancy, if the child is likely to be diseased or insane, if there is not enough money to prevent the utmost extreme of misery, that does not prevent the man from being justified in insisting on his conjugal rights, provided only that he hopes to beget a child.
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
A ruling also had to be made as to whether a wife who wouldn't operate the remote bought by her husband, for sex, was refusing him his conjugal rights.