Top Wedlock Quotes
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...
Antonia Fraser
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common law, empowerment, fathers, feminism, feudalism, gender, guardianship, history, husbands, independence
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...
Antonia Fraser
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empowerment, feminism, gender, history, independence, inequality, marriage, married life, matrimony, men
Wedlock Definition
(v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
(v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
(v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.