spousal

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From spouse +‎ -al.

Adjective

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spousal (comparative more spousal, superlative most spousal)

  1. of or relating to marriage
  2. of or relating to a spouse, spouses; to the relationship between spouses
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English spousaille, from Old French esposaille, espousaille, espousalle, Anglo-Norman (e)spusaille, esposalie, sposale, spousaille.

Noun

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spousal (plural spousals)

  1. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) Espousal; marriage; nuptials.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spousal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)