WEDLOCK


Meaning of WEDLOCK in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

born

It's upsetting to find you were born out of wedlock .

Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock .

Burns had fourteen known children, half of them born out of wedlock .

Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock .

A baby born out of wedlock was a great sin, then, and a huge embarrassment to the family.

A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.

I had to advise him that the father of a child born out of wedlock had few, if any, rights.

Babies born out of wedlock are commonplace.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A baby born out of wedlock was a great sin, then, and a huge embarrassment to the family.

A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.

Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock .

Burns had fourteen known children, half of them born out of wedlock .

I had to advise him that the father of a child born out of wedlock had few, if any, rights.

It's upsetting to find you were born out of wedlock .

Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock .

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