wedlock
/ˈwɛd.lɒk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man."
- "Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);"
- "that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]"
- "Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?"
- "What is it then but that desire which God put into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock."
Etymology
From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wedlok, wedlāc
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈwɛd.lɒk/