"bedlock" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of bed + wedlock",
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          "ref": "1882, John Alonzo Clark, A Young Disciple, page 362:",
          "text": "He wants you an' me to fall dead in love, an' be j'ined in bedlock.",
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          "ref": "2005, David Luke, transl., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Selected Poetry, Penguin Classics, page 30:",
          "text": "Not a single pleasure is risk-free; Who in his own wife's lap now lays a confident head? Neither in wedlock now nor in bedlock can we be.",
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          "text": "If Rose is having a tennis party it may make more sense to include Joe's steady tennis partner, Sue (with whom he has never had sex), than either his wife (from whom he has been separated for four months) or Dizzy (a current partner in bedlock whose most outstanding qualities are neither athletic nor intellectual).",
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        "A relationship where an unmarried couple shares a bed; cohabitation."
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  "word": "bedlock"
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          "text": "Not a single pleasure is risk-free; Who in his own wife's lap now lays a confident head? Neither in wedlock now nor in bedlock can we be.",
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          "text": "If Rose is having a tennis party it may make more sense to include Joe's steady tennis partner, Sue (with whom he has never had sex), than either his wife (from whom he has been separated for four months) or Dizzy (a current partner in bedlock whose most outstanding qualities are neither athletic nor intellectual).",
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