Connubial vs Hymeneal - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to marriage.
* 1806 , Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady , vol I:
* 1831 , Anna Maria Winter, Thoughts on the Moral Order of Nature , vol. III, IV.3.vii:
* 2005 , Catherine Bennett, The Guardian , 23 Jun 2005:
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the hymen.
* 1978 , AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden , p. 422:
A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.
* 1717 , ,
As adjectives the difference between connubial and hymeneal
is that connubial is of or relating to the state of being married while hymeneal is pertaining to marriage.As a noun hymeneal is
a hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.connubial
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Usage notes
Particularly used in fixed phrases, such as “connubial bliss”, “connubial love”, “connubial relations”, and “connubial bed”.Synonyms
* conjugalReferences
hymeneal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.
- It seems to me that girls ought to be early taught to discriminate, between the characteristic of a hymeneal connexion and of a dishonourable one apparently resembling it.
- Is it so difficult to wait until you are out of the register office to exchange some home-made vows and a selection of inspiring hymeneal ditties - To His Coy Mistress, for instance, or some lines from The Hollow Men?
- ‘It doesn't seem to qualify as a haemorrhage,’ he said, with his usual cocky certainty. ‘Just heavy hymeneal bleeding, I'd say.’
See also
* matrimonial * nuptialNoun
(en noun)- For her white virgins hymeneals sing, / To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, / And melts in visions of eternal day.