Wedlock in example sentence

The black turned in quiet submission to the surgeon, who commenced as follows:-"Caesar, your mistress has already acquainted you with the important event about to be solemnized within this habitation; but a cincture or ring is wanting to encircle the finger of the bride; a custom derived from the ancients, and which has been continued in the marriage forms of several branches of the Christian church, and which is even, by a species of typical wedlock, used in the installation of prelates, as you doubtless understand."

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And of course, that's a much better thing to get people for than the things we used to get people for, like having children out of wedlock.

The film also contains the idiotic subplot of Norris and his girlfriend having a child out of wedlock; it's so 1980's.

I saw this movie in its own time period, when having a baby out of wedlock not only ruined your life, but stamped your child as a bastard.

Plot about a female bartender having a baby out of wedlock, and years later giving the young girl over to the child's wealthy father so she'll have a shot at a better life, can't escape tatty, old-fashioned trappings and sentiment.

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