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Hymenal vs Hymeneal - What's the difference?

hymenal | hymeneal |

As adjectives the difference between hymenal and hymeneal

is that hymenal is of, or pertaining to, the hymen while hymeneal is pertaining to marriage.

As a noun hymeneal is

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

hymenal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or pertaining to, the hymen

    • 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.’

    See also

    * matrimonial * nuptial

    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.