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from The Century Dictionary.

  • As regards marriage; with respect to marriage or the marriage ceremony.

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Examples

  • The visible difference between the male and female bodies is nuptially significant, not merely as an evolutionary device for reproduction but as the sign and instrument of spiritual intercommunion in marriage.

    The ecclesiology of the body Mike L 2006

  • The visible difference between the male and female bodies is nuptially significant, not merely as an evolutionary device for reproduction but as the sign and instrument of spiritual intercommunion in marriage.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

  • "All right," rejoined Coleman, "it's always customary to say so in these cases, but it means nothing; as to the real question of mastery, that is a matter to be decided post-nuptially; you'll be enlightened on the subject before long in a series of midnight discourses, commonly known under the title of curtain-lectures."

    Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835

  • She is still nuptially entwined with the man Alex Chilton told her she was too young to marry and they now have two children.

    Deadspin Rob Trucks 2010

  • Unlike her character's nuptially-obsessed mother, who has dreamed of her daughter's wedding day since she was born,

    unknown title 2009

  • Joined by a nuptially impaired 50-Foot Woman, a selfless pushover who finds empowerment clubbing robots with hunks of the Golden Gate Bridge, the beasties wage war from earth to sky with help from a hothead commander (Kiefer Sutherland, equal parts Slim Pickens and Yosemite Sam).

    NashvilleScene.com 2009

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