单词 | out of wedlock |
释义 | Example sentences from the Web for out of wedlockout of wedlockSEE SYNONYMS FOR out of wedlock ON THESAURUS.COM Of parents not legally married, as in Over the centuries many royal children were born out of wedlock. The noun wedlock, for the state of being married, is rarely heard today except in this phrase, first recorded in 1675; its converse, in wedlock, dates from the 1300s and is even more rarely used. Words nearby out of wedlockout of this world, out of touch, out-of-town, out-of-towner, out of turn, out of wedlock, out of whack, out of whole cloth, out of work, out on a limb, out on bail The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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