Both Uses of
conjugal
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.†
p. 228.1 *
- She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavored to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.†
p. 228.9
Definition:
of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband