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An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal. (source)conjugal = marital (relating to marriage)
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I start noticing small signs of conjugal existence.† (source)
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It strikes me now that the Brinker-Smiths were blessed with good-spirited initiative, with an admirable and inventive sense of mischief—for how else could they have maintained one of the pleasures of conjugal relations without disturbing their demanding twins?† (source)
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That night, realizing that he wouldn't be able to ignore his conjugal duty forever, Pedro knelt by the bed, on which the nuptial sheet was spread, and offered up this prayer: "Lord, this is not lust or lewdness but to make a child to serve you."† (source)
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And so, larded with their love for him, their passionate belief that he hung the moon and that any conjugal love they might ever know would only be a pale reflection of their love for him, larded with this was a desperation as strong as the will to survive.† (source)
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One day his wife, Louisa—"Lulu"—traveled to Chicago for a surprise conjugal visit.† (source)
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She never spoke of him again, nor did she offer any explanation for her flight from the conjugal abode.† (source)
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The men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality.† (source)
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There was an unforeseen surprise, a cessation of the winds and odours of life, a social pressure that would have her think conjugally.† (source)
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The baroness shrugged her shoulders with an air of ineffable contempt, while her husband, affecting not to observe this unconjugal gesture, turned towards Monte Cristo and said,—"Upon my word, count, I am quite sorry not to have met you sooner.† (source)unconjugal = not of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husbandstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconjugal means not and reverses the meaning of conjugal. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Contrary to what they had expected, Gaston sent them a calm, almost paternal reply, with two whole pages devoted to a warning against the fickleness of passion and a final paragraph with unmistakable wishes for them to be as happy as he had been during his brief conjugal experience.† (source)
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Charlotte, an excellent businesswoman, and highly important as backer, counselor, consultant, gave him just what united them closer than common conjugality.† (source)
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Then you can stay over for a conjugal visit.† (source)
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She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over.† (source)
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He turned his mind away from the bed, and from the scenes of conjugal misery that must have been enacted upon it.† (source)
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On his tongue it sounded like the name of a blowsy woman, one of many that had come between him and his conjugal duties.† (source)
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