Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Connubial \Con*nu"bi*al\, a. [L. connubialis, fr. connubium marriage; con- + nubere to veil, to marry. See Nupital.] Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.
Nor Eve the rites
Mysterious of connubial love refused.
--Milton.
Kind, connubial tenderness.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to the state of being married.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband; "connubial bliss"; "conjugal visits" [syn: conjugal]
adv. in a conjugal manner [syn: conjugally]
Usage examples of "connubial".
Partridge KS he memorizes highlights of their connubial battles so he can regale the E.
An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
Then I told him--despite his continued expression of indifference--about my love, and about all my plans for my future connubial happiness.
Of the desire of a young man for a young woman, as well as of the reverse instance, I am not now speaking, for of such tendresses I am wary, seeing that I have been too unhappy in my life to have been able ever to see in such affection a single spark of truth, but rather a lying pretence in which sensuality, connubial relations, money, and the wish to bind hands or to unloose them have rendered feeling such a complex affair as to defy analysis.
He tried to imagine Pearl, lying beside Solly in the connubial bliss which enfolded Dutchy and himself.
We map her out a course of permissible follies, and she plays to lose the thousand by degrees, with as telling an effect upon a connubial conscience as we can produce.
London railway terminus--probably the one whither your ticket would have taken you yesterday, for I heard the lady was on her way to us for supplies, the connubial larder being empty.
Halstead had slept on it, but not much, because the connubial argument had gone on long into the night.
It was not, he concluded, an affair of connubial recriminations, which might typically have disrupted a typical taciturnity.
I made a point of listening for the accentuation of the 'my dear' which was being interchanged, but the key-note to the harmony existing between husband and wife was neither excessively unctuous, nor shrewd, and the connubial shuttlecock was so well kept up on both sides that I chose to await the issue rather than speculate on the origin of this strange exhibition.
Whitford's drunkenness and rioting at a London railway terminus--probably the one whither your ticket would have taken you yesterday, for I heard the lady was on her way to us for supplies, the connubial larder being empty.
Femme genante', are written in the same humorous strain, and procured him many admirers by the vivacious and sparkling representations of bachelor and connubial life.
She looked pensive when I told her that the husband destined for her might be unable to discharge his connubial duties more than once a week.
This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears--he called loudly for his wife and children--the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence.
This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears he called loudly for his wife and children the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence.