conjugal

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Now one can feel affection--conjugal or friendly--toward an inferior, but one cannot feel adoration--and adoration is absolutely essential to romantic love.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to marriage or the relationship of spouses.

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  • Because as far as I'm concerned there's not much point in getting' hitched if we ain't gonna share a bed I think any discussion about rights--conjugal or otherwise -- is a trifle premature at this point, ; she informed him shortly. —  HUSBAND WANTED
  • The action of nursing is post-conjugal, post-partum activity and is not, in the same way, constitutive of the conjugal / sacramental sign that speaks the meaning of marriage. —  The Register's Daily Blog
  • Every holy feeling will also continue after death--conjugal, parental, filial, fraternal affections are holy; they are expressly enjoined upon us by divine authority. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
  • There are many different sorts and degrees of love revealed in man's relation with his fellow: conjugal, the love between husband and wife; paternal, the love of a father for his child; maternal, the mother's love for her child; filial, the love of children for father and mother; fraternal, or brotherly, meaning really the love of children of the same parents for each other, both brothers and sisters--the same word is used for love between friends where there is no tie of blood; and patriotic, or love for one's country. —  Quiet Talks with World Winners
  • I am so conjugal, and so much in earnest upon the article of recovery, that I cannot think of a pretty thing to say to very pretty Mrs. Stanhope; nor do I know what would be a pretty thing in these days. —  Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II
 

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  1. Latin coniugālis, from coniūnx, coniug-, spouse, from coniungere, to join in marriage; see conjoin.

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  1. = French conjugal = Provencal conyugal = Spanish conjugal, now conyugal, = Portuguese conjugal = Italian congiugale, conjugate, from Latin conjugalis, from conjunx, conjux (conjug-), a husband or wife, also feminine conjuga, a wife, from conjungere, join, unite, join in marriage: see conjoin. Cf. conjugial.
 

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/ˈkɑndʒugəl/
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