Wedded vs Wed - What's the difference?
wedded | wed |
(of a couple) joined in marriage.
(wed)
* 15th c. , [1997], , Eugène Vinaver ed.
* 1911 [1990], T. W. Rolleston, Celtic Myths and Legends [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=OcbAOkX1uRYC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&sig=55jgL7lmh-RoSHLCFwUE9Ak9TTM]
* 1976 [2004], J. E. A. Tyler, The Complete Tolkien Companion [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=lII4lt_MAmQC&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&sig=1Xrj5Ba8WNVeXzclh60oQtpM3lE]
* a. 1911 1986, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=vALiAcRyBcwC&pg=PA380&lpg=PA380&sig=hOThAAm-raql5gJhpMZzbU1P-T8]
* 1986, St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life, Catherine P. Roth & David Anderson tr. [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=hbMtKk-kiLMC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&sig=GVHA-ol3fLhiSzro9HX7X4Rs4hE]
* 2004 Maureen O’Hara, ’Tis Herself [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_xBMo-UNCgMC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&sig=NfvJnZ59cPHM1_x5_61cDx1BVjg]
To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
* Milton
To take as one's spouse.
To take a spouse.
(figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)
* Shakespeare
* Tillotson
* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 72:
(figurative) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
* Clarendon
Wed is a synonym of wedded.
As verbs the difference between wedded and wed
is that wedded is past tense of wed while wed is to perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.As an adjective wedded
is joined in marriage.As a noun Wed is
an alternative spelling of Wed.|lang=en.wedded
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Adjective
Derived terms
*Verb
(head)- And kynge Lott of Lowthean and of Orkenay thenne wedded' Margawse that was Gaweyns moder, and kynge Nentres of the land of Garlot ' wedded Elayne: al this was done at the request of kynge Uther.
- Ross the Red, it is said, wedded a Danaan woman, Maga, daughter of Angus ?g.
- Húrin wedded Morwen Eledhwen of the First House — and their children were Túrin and Nienor.
- But when he shall have wedded himself unto that duty so that he hath made it one with him as a bridegroom maketh himself one with his bride, then doth that duty become of a sudden very beautiful unto him and unto others.
- She was wedded wearing no golden robe but chastity, piety, generosity, and every other virtue.
- “Who would have thought she’d already been wedded and bedded?”
wed
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Verb
- The priest wed the couple.
- And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her.
- She wed her first love.
- Thou art wedded to calamity.
- Men are wedded to their lusts.
- They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.