All 8 Uses
nuptial
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
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- dost thou only now know this, that every one loves himself dearer than his neighbor,[5] some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain, unless it be that[6] their father loves not these at least on account of new nuptials.†
nuptials = wedding ceremony and festivities
- Bitter and mournful to them will I make these nuptials, and bitter this alliance, and my flight from this land.†
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- Ill doth it become thee to incur ridicule from the race of Sisyphus, and from the nuptials of Jason, who art sprung from a noble father, and from the sun.†
- But thou helpless woman hast neither father's house to afford you haven from your woes, and another more powerful queen of the nuptial bed rules over the house.†
nuptial = of or relating to a wedding
- Take these nuptial presents, my sons, in your hands, and bear and present them to the blessed royal bride; she shall receive gifts not indeed to be despised.†
- But I am now going an exile into a foreign land, before I could have delight in you, and see you flourishing, before I could adorn your marriage, and wife, and nuptial-bed, and hold up the torch.†
- But for me it remains to bewail my fate, who shall neither enjoy my new nuptials, nor shall I have it in my power to address while alive my sons whom I begot and educated, but I have lost them.†
nuptials = wedding ceremony and festivities
- But injury, and thy new nuptials.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(nuptial) concerning a wedding
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)