conjugality

Noun

conjugality (countable and uncountable, plural conjugalities)

1. The condition of being conjugal.
   • He moved a step to her side and bent down to kiss her forehead. The automatic conjugality of the daily kiss might have a good effect. That was what he though, if he thought at all.1894, Francis Marion Crawford, Casa Braccio, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Part II, Chapter 26, p. 79
   • The conjugality of the court and jail is confessed by putting the two under the same roof, or by joining them together.1906, George E. Macdonald, “Unbidden Thoughts”, in Liberty, volume 15, number 6, page 40
2. The conjugal state; marriage; sexual intercourse.
   • And if it be true both in divinity and law, that consent alone, though copulation never follow, makes a marriage; how can they dissolve it for the want of that which made it not, and not dissolve it for that not continuing which made it and should preserve it in love and reason, and difference it...1645, John Milton, “Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage”, in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: In Two Books: Also...
   • 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.1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book I, Chapter 7