CONJUGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjugal mean? 

• CONJUGAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONJUGAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband

  Familiarity information: CONJUGAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJUGAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

conjugal; connubial

Context example:

conjugal visits

Pertainym:

marriage (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))

 Context examples 

An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Here have I been sitting this hour, giving these young ladies a sample of true conjugal obedience—for who can say, you know, how soon it may be wanted?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A demographic parameter indicating a person's current conjugal status.

(Marital Status, NCI Thesaurus)

Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am ever to know—such are the endearments which are to solace my leisure hours!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy roads and sodden fields.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The conjugal affection of her father and mother constituted her ideal of love-affinity, and she looked forward some day to emerging, without shock or friction, into that same quiet sweetness of existence with a loved one.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In their house I shall call to mind the conjugal manners of Mansfield Parsonage with respect.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was not to be doubted that poor Harriet's attachment had been an offering to conjugal unreserve, and her own share in the story, under a colouring the least favourable to her and the most soothing to him, had in all likelihood been given also.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)