bridegroom

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To this Jesus replied, "why should the children in the bridechamber fast so long as the bridegroom is among them?

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  1. noun A man who is about to be married or has recently been married.

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  • The sign of mourning adopted for the bridegroom was a special headgear After the bridegroom had returned to the synagogue and placed himself near the Ark of the Law, the morning service was held. —  Rashi
  • I asked what was going to happen, and they told me that the bridegroom was allowed to raise her veil, to unclasp her belt, and to speak a few words to her in the presence of their relatives. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • On 9 March, less than a month after the execution of her husband, the Duchess of Suffolk remarried, causing a scandal because her bridegroom was her impecunious, low-born master of horse, Adrian Stokes. —  TheChildrenof
  • Courtney Kunnemann, sister of the bridegroom was the guestbook attendant. —  McCook Daily Gazette Headlines
  • In a Suabian document of the twelfth century, the bridegroom is the chief actor. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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  1. Alteration (influenced by groom) of Middle English bridegome, from Old English brȳdguma : brȳd, bride; see bride + guma, man; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English bridegrome (Tyndale, adjective d. 1525), with inserted r as in the simple groom (q. v.); from Middle English bridegome, bridgume, bredgome, brudgume, from Anglo-Saxon bry¯dguma, also bry¯diguma (bry¯di for bry¯de, genitive of bry¯d) (= Old Saxon brūdigumo = OFries. breidgoma = Dutch bruidegom, bruigom = Middle Low German brūdegam, Low German brüdegam, brödegam, brögam = Old High German brūtigomo, Middle High German briutegome, German bräutigam = Icelandic brudhgumi = Swedish brudgum, -gumme, = Old Danish brudegomme, brudgomme, Danish brudgom), literally bride's man, from bry¯d, genitive bry¯de, etc., bride, + guma, man: see bride and groom. Cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) brūthfaths, bridegroom, from brūths, daughter-in-law (bride), + faths = Greek πόσις = Sanskrit pati, husband, lord: see despot, potent, etc.
 

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