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  • The suffix -lock in Modern English survives only in wedlock and bridelock. It descends from Old English -lác, which was more productive, carrying a meaning...
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    flesh or sex (for I am neither wood nor stone); but my mind is averse to wedlock because I daily expect the death of a heretic." Before marrying, Luther...
    151 KB (19,001 words) - 07:14, 24 May 2024
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    the Moon, which is a male figure, was seen as forming a pair–usually wedlock–with the Sun, which is a female figure, and which in Greek mythology is...
    128 KB (12,056 words) - 08:23, 26 April 2024
  • who were cast under the sea during one of Poseidon's rages. Callimachus, Hymns 4 to delos, "But none need grudge that she be named among the first, whensoever...
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    others. Soon Clymene fell pregnant, and their son Phaethon was born within wedlock. Her and Helios raised their child together, until the ill-fated day the...
    307 KB (33,994 words) - 19:29, 1 June 2024
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    fields of golden wheat, that she may be associated with fertility, family, wedlock and/or that she is connected to rowan, and that there may be an allusion...
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  • rock concert, Brian snaps after she refuses to have sex with him out of wedlock and wishes that Christianity never existed. He decides to use Stewie's...
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    their bridal she spread love's shy and winsome modesty, plighting in joint wedlock the god and maiden daughter of wide-ruling Hypseus...That very day saw...
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    to her husband. Join them together in oneness of mind; crown them with wedlock into one flesh; grant to them the fruit of the womb and the gain of well-favored...
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    Hymen (god) (category Ancient Greek wedding hymns)
    where he joins the couples at the end — Tis Hymen peoples every town; High wedlock then be honoured. Honour, high honour, and renown, To Hymen, god of every...
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    returned to Norway and became a tutor in Vefsn. He fathered a child out of wedlock, and had to travel to Copenhagen to seek pardon from King Christian V of...
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  • (2019) Weddings and Babies (1960) Weddings Are Wonderful (1938) Wedlock (1991) Wedlock Deadlock (1947) A Wednesday! (2008) Wednesday, May 9 (2015) Wednesday's...
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    have become even more accepting than Anglicans of having children outside wedlock: in 1989, 73% of British Catholics thought people should marry before having...
    152 KB (17,420 words) - 17:55, 5 June 2024
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    first prize in composition. During this period, Svendsen had a son out of wedlock, Johann Richard Rudolph (1867–1933). Gradually his attention turned to...
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    treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency. Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by...
    190 KB (21,003 words) - 20:04, 28 May 2024
  • etymology for the Latin word. spurious From Latin spurius "born out of wedlock, illegitimate" from Etruscan spur-al "of the city" because, as Pisani proposed...
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    Volume III, 'Alas! the love of women', 1813–1814, (1974) Volume IV, 'Wedlock's the devil', 1814–1815, (1975) Volume V, 'So late into the night', 1816–1817...
    122 KB (14,848 words) - 09:41, 4 June 2024
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    of Akbar. Salim (later Jahangir), heir to the throne, was born of this wedlock on 30th August, 1569." Ahloowalia 2009, p. 130 Ballhatchet, Kenneth A....
    149 KB (17,721 words) - 22:51, 3 June 2024
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    and Leda. Plutarch records how Theseus and Romulus were both born out of wedlock and of uncertain parentage and at the same time had the reputation of being...
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    2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital in New York City. Baldwin was born out of wedlock. Jones never revealed to Baldwin who his biological father was. According...
    144 KB (18,176 words) - 01:45, 6 June 2024
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