| 单词 | break wedlock | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break wedlock  d.   †to break spousehood (Middle English),  to break wedlock,  to break matrimony (16th cent.): to break the marriage vow, commit adultery.  to break a marriage: to dissolve or annul it, obtain a divorce. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest			[verb (intransitive)]		 > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > divorce or separate			[verb (intransitive)]		 divort1581 dismiss1608 unmarry1635 divorce1643 separate1686 to part beds1710 to break a marriage1844 bust1880 to break up1912 split1942 split1942 uncouple1942 c1175    Lamb. Hom. 143  				Þe sunfulle Men þet spushad brekeð. 1530    Bible 		(Tyndale)	 Gen. Prol. sig. Avi  				David, though he brake wedlocke. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Matt. xix. 18  				Thou shalt not breake wedlocke. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Luke xvi. 18  				Who so euer putteth awaye his wife and marieth another breaketh matrimony. 1844    Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. v. 71  				His desire to break his first marriage from his wish to espouse Anne Boleyn. to break (one's) wedlock ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > 			[noun]		 > vow eeOE wedlocka1100 wed1390 marriagec1395 marriage vow1602 bed-vow1609 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest			[verb (intransitive)]		 > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 a1100    Aldhelm Gloss. in  Zeitschr. f. Deutsches Alterthum IX. 498/2  				Pacta sponsalia refutans, wedlac wiðsacende. c1175    Ormulum 		(Burchfield transcript)	 l. 2499  				& tohh wass heh & soþ weddlac Haldenn onn eȝȝþerr hallfe. c1230    Hali Meid. 19  				Ȝif ha hare wedlac laheliche halden. c1275    XI Pains of Hell 105 in  Old Eng. Misc. 150  				Heo þat her wedlac brekeþ To heore muþe þe flod takeþ. c1385    G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 295  				For alle kepid they here maydynhed Or ellis wedlek. c1426    J. Audelay Poems 		(1931)	 3  				Kepe ȝoure wedloke. ?c1510    tr.  Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Eiiv  				There is..noman so hardy that dare breke his wedloke. 1523    Ld. Berners tr.  J. Froissart Chron. 		(1812)	 I. xxi. 30  				Howe be it she kept but euyll the sacrament of matrimony, but brake her wedloke. 1526    Bible 		(Tyndale)	 Matt. v. f. vjv  				And whosoever maryeth her that is divorsed, breketh wedlocke. 1530    Myroure Oure Ladye 		(Fawkes)	 		(1873)	  ii. 207  				How wedlocke betwyxte man and woman shulde be kepte after the lawe of god. 1553    T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Pref. sig. A iii  				None remembred the true obseruation of wedlocke. 1579    R. Rice Inuect. Vices E iv  				Christe aunswered,..Thou shalte not breake wedlocke: Thou shalte not kill. a1616    W. Shakespeare Othello 		(1622)	  v. ii. 149  				Em. That she was false to wedlocke? Oth. I, with  Cassio.       View more context for this quotation a1616    W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale 		(1623)	  v. i. 123  				Your Mother was most true to Wedlock .       View more context for this quotation < as lemmas  | 
	
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