hymeneal

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A splendid train of eunuchs and officers issued, in hymeneal pomp, from the gates of the palace, bearing aloft the diadem, the robes and the inestimable ornaments of the future empress.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

As a general rule, I don't think a man is justified in interferin' with other people's hymeneal intentions, but it's different when the said intentions is goin' to make your own home a hell.

From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Lardner, Ring

Since that time their happiness has never had the least interruption; except from the hymeneal expedition of my friend Henry.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia

By numbers sought,—averse alike to all; Impatient of their suit, through forests wild, And groves, in maiden ignorance she roams; Nor cares for Cupid, nor hymeneal rites, Nor soft connubial joys.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

To my dark lot no bridal joys Belong, nor e’er the jocund noise p. 50Of hymeneal chant shall sound for me, But death, cold death, my only spouse shall be.

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Kingsley, Charles