wedlock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state of being married, especially in the phrases in wedlock and out of wedlock

   After many years of wedlock, they still enjoyed traveling together.

From Old English wedlāc, 'marriage vow or pledged union,' formed from wedd, 'pledge,' + lāc, an Old English noun-forming element meaning an action or state. The ending is not related to modern lock.

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