Hymeneal - What does it mean?

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hymeneal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to marriage.

* 1806 , Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady , vol I:

I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.

* 1831 , Anna Maria Winter, Thoughts on the Moral Order of Nature , vol. III, IV.3.vii:

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.

* 2005 , Catherine Bennett, The Guardian , 23 Jun 2005:

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?

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the hymen.

* 1978 , AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden , p. 422:

‘It doesn't seem to qualify as a haemorrhage,’ he said, with his usual cocky certainty. ‘Just heavy hymeneal bleeding, I'd say.’

Noun

(en noun)

A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.

* 1717 , ,

For her white virgins hymeneals sing, / To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, / And melts in visions of eternal day.

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