The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.
A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." Milton.
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