"sponsal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.",
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          "text": "1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64,\nThe sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians."
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          "ref": "1963 January, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, volume 25, Catholic Biblical Association of America, page 455:",
          "text": "Boniface Llamera, St. Joseph (Herder, 1961), better preserves the primary character of the sponsal relationship when he writes: \"The entire theology of St. Joseph (Josephology) has one first and principal basis: the marriage which united him to Mary.\"",
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          "ref": "1993, Liam Gavin, transl., edited by Michel Forsé, Jean-Pierre Jaslin, Yannick Lemel, Henri Mendras, Denis Stoclet, and Jean-Hugues Déchaux, Recent Social Trends in France, 1960-1990, McGill-Queen's University Press, page 70:",
          "text": "This leads to diversity in the types of sponsal relationships.",
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        "Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal."
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        "(obsolete) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal."
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒnsəl"
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  "word": "sponsal"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.",
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          "text": "1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64,\nThe sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians."
        },
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          "ref": "1963 January, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, volume 25, Catholic Biblical Association of America, page 455:",
          "text": "Boniface Llamera, St. Joseph (Herder, 1961), better preserves the primary character of the sponsal relationship when he writes: \"The entire theology of St. Joseph (Josephology) has one first and principal basis: the marriage which united him to Mary.\"",
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          "text": "This leads to diversity in the types of sponsal relationships.",
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        "(obsolete) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal."
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