adjective
definition
Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.
Examples of conjugal in a Sentence
It might be supposed that conjugal fidelity must suffer from such a custom.
Sometimes, again, the relationship is of a conjugal character.
Mandarin birds and kingfisher covers are symbols of conjugal affection.
Mandarin Ducks form a strong attachment to their partners, hence, they are also an emblem of conjugal fidelity.
They are monogamous, and their conjugal fidelity contrasts strongly with the vicious habits of the Sinhalese.
The wife then applied in South Africa for leave to sue her husband for restitution of conjugal rights or for divorce.
It used to be held that in her conjugal relations she was more sinned against than sinning.
Where, as is generally the case, detail of sex, age, conjugal condition and birthplace is included in the return, the census results can be co-ordinated with those of the parallel registration of marriages, births, deaths and migration, thus forming the basis of what are summarily termed vital statistics, the source of our information regarding the nature and causes of the process of "peopling," i.e.
He was passionately attached to his wife and children; and, while his friend Beccadelli signed the licentious verses of Hermaphroditus, his own Muse celebrated in liberal but loyal strains the pleasures of conjugal affection, the charm of infancy and the sorrows of a husband and a father in the loss of those he loved.
It differed from the formless marriage in the absence (1) of affectio maritalis, and therefore (2) of full conjugal rights.
This beautiful story of conjugal devotion forms the subject of the Alcestis of Euripides, which furnished the basis of Robert Browning's Balaustion's Adventure.
That day I received a letter from my benefactor in which he wrote about "conjugal duties."
Conjugal conditions in Cuba are peculiar.