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What does wedlock mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being married; matrimony.
  2. (obsolete) A wife; a married woman.
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He's 22 next month and already they're shoving him up the aisle into wedlock.
Terry Prendergast, chief executive of Marriage Care, which counsels couples on coping with the strains of wedlock, agrees.
Rose has just given birth out of wedlock and has her son forcibly taken for adoption.
Their results provide strong indications that policymakers who are promoting wedlock are indeed serving the public well.
They married in 2002, and their first year of wedlock was documented on a TV show.
Give and take is the key to a successful marriage, say a Malmesbury couple who have celebrated 50 years of wedlock.

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