espousage
English
Noun
espousage (uncountable)
- (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.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, The First Sermon preached before King Edward.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 espousage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)