Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Espousal; marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Espousal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
espousal
Etymologies
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Old French espousaige, from espouser. See spouse (transitive verb).
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Examples
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Rebukyng other or to speke of your noble blood or kynrede/for in the spousage and seruyce of god/the poorest mannes doughter lyuynge shall be egall & lyke to the gretest kynges doughter lyuynge in erthe.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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The legislature could choose any term but "marriage" to describe this new kind of contract created by the courts, be it a familiar one like "matrimony" or get creative and invent one ... call it "spousage".
Spot-On 2009
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