Meanings of holy wedlock in English

She lived in holy wedlock with her husband twenty years, wanting but four days.

Grasped in mine-unitedwith it in holy wedlock.

And not smart bastard either-bornin holy wedlock.

Marriage is monotonous: but there is much, I trust, to be said in favour of holy wedlock.

We have 'consented together in holy wedlock.'

Then they forced the unwilling Fathers to unite them in holy wedlock to the maidens of their choice.

Do you know any just cause or impediment why they should not be joined together in holy wedlock?

And now thy Joan is well-nigh as fully thine as though ye had joined your hands in holy wedlock.

Should you thrust conscience into the cellar, stifle its outcries, and give your consent to a profanation of holy wedlock?

No, the Almighty had His own ways with His children, and this great mystery of holy wedlock was one of them.

Nothing arose to mar their intercourse until the appointed time for the nuptial ceremonies arrived, when they were united in holy wedlock.

We kept up a regular correspondence during the time, and in June, 1848, we had the happiness to be joined in holy wedlock.

After all, he'd been raised to believe in the sanctity of marriage and that living together out of holy wedlock was a sin.

That was what I was coming down to speak about, sir-toask you to save this innocent girl from such a mockery of holy wedlock.

No deep affections are disquieted, no holy wedlock bands are snapped asunder-foraffection's depth and wedded faith are not of the growth of that soil.

"Didn't God join you in holy wedlock, Mandy?"