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But to my quotations--wherein the reader will judge how difficult it has been for me to satisfy at once the delicacy of the English mind and that historic truth which the highest art demands Erat inter eos honorabile connubium, et thorus immaculatus, non in ardore libidmis, sed in conjugalis sanctimoniae castitate.

—The Saint's Tragedy

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In botany, the stage at which the protoplasm of filamentous algæ coalesces in conjugation.

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You're sure connubium has only one "n" in it Wombie? — Kiss & Blog
We have long known that the connubium was the cause of a long and determined struggle between the patricians and the plebeians in Rome. — Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
But to my quotations--wherein the reader will judge how difficult it has been for me to satisfy at once the delicacy of the English mind and that historic truth which the highest art demands Erat inter eos honorabile connubium, et thorus immaculatus, non in ardore libidmis, sed in conjugalis sanctimoniae castitate. — The Saint's Tragedy
He lived in Rome for more than twenty years, and became a great friend of the younger Africánus, whom he accompanied to the siege of Carthage Like Macedonia, Greece was separated into parts, independent of each other, with no rights of connubium or commercium_. — Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
Hec magno patris tui amore perculsa, primum quidem ei connubium michi mortem parabat; postea vero, recusante — She