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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/
• (General American) IPA: /kəˈnu.bi.əl/

形容詞

connubial (comparative more connubial, superlative most connubial)

1. Of or relating to the state of being married.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 179–180:

     "For my part," continued the Duke of Wharton, "I hold that the connubial system of this country is a complete mistake. The only happy marriages I ever heard of are those in some Eastern story I once read, where the king marries a new wife every night, and cuts off her head in the morning."

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13:

     Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.

   • 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 7.1, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 175:

     A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]

使用する際の注意点

• Particularly used in fixed phrases, such as connubial bliss, connubial love, connubial relations, and connubial bed.

同意語

• conjugal

派生語

関連する語

• nubile
• nuptial, nuptials

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