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conjugal rights
plural noun
- the sexual rights and privileges conferred on spouses by the marriage bond.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of conjugal rights1
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Example Sentences
Wearing apparel, furniture, jewelry, even legal expenses incurred in regaining her conjugal rights have been included.
Hereupon he availed himself of his conjugal rights with characteristic pettiness and forbade her to leave France.
After luncheon, a diabolic idea occurred to him: Why shouldn't he take a definite advance on his conjugal rights?
He declares his love for me, takes me in his arms, and threatens me with his conjugal rights.
It differed from the formless marriage in the absence of affectio maritalis, and therefore of full conjugal rights.
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