espousage
English edit
Noun edit
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.
References edit
- “espousage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.