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countable and uncountable, plural wedlocks
The state of being married. examples
(obsolete) A wife; a married woman. quotations
Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?
1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster
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.
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce