"wedlock" meaning in English

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      "word": "break wedlock"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.",
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      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1871, Thomas Meehan, editor, Gardener's monthly and horticulturist:",
          "text": "If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:",
          "text": "Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);",
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        "The state of being married."
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          "married",
          "married"
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        {
          "word": "matrimony"
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        {
          "word": "marriage"
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]",
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          "ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster:",
          "text": "Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?",
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          "ref": "1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:",
          "text": "What is it then but that desire which God put into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock.",
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        "A wife; a married woman."
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        "(obsolete) A wife; a married woman."
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1871, Thomas Meehan, editor, Gardener's monthly and horticulturist:",
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        {
          "ref": "1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:",
          "text": "Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);",
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        "The state of being married."
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        {
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          "text": "What is it then but that desire which God put into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock.",
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        "A wife; a married woman."
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        "(obsolete) A wife; a married woman."
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