hymeneal

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What would the world say when it should have become known that he intended to lead Lady Frances to the "hymeneal altar?"

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

There are, we take it, about three ways which lead to what the provincial reporter delights to term “the hymeneal altar.”

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

They completed their walk to the house of the hymeneal merrymaking in a bitter silence, both very miserable.

From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons

Men will stand mateless, and the ruins of the hymeneal altars everywhere crumble mournfully away, and be known to tradition only by their vanishing inscriptions: "To the unknown god."

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady