espousage

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espousage (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) espousal
    • 1549, Hugh Latimer, The First Sermon preached before King Edward:
      Yea, let all estates be no less circumspect
      in choosing her, taking great deliberation, and then they
      shall not need divorcements, and such mischiefs, to the evil
      example and slander of our realm. And that she be such one as the king can find in his heart to love, and lead his life in pure and chaste espousage.
    • c. 1651, a letter [unclear to and from whom...][1]:
      And their Espousage or Marriage to Christ doth not argue his divorce from the Gentiles

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