hymenaeal

Adjective

hymeneal (comparative more hymeneal, superlative most hymeneal)

1. Pertaining to marriage.
   • I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.1806, Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady, volume I
2. Pertaining to sexual relations.
   • Although the whole earth, not we alone, is moved by passions hymeneal, and everything terrestrial has come into being by the one common road, yet there is that ridiculous tendency to close the eyes and turn away the head as if there were something unclean in nature itself.1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XI, in Jennie Gerhardt
3. Of or pertaining to the hymen.
   • ‘It doesn't seem to qualify as a haemorrhage,’ he said, with his usual cocky certainty. ‘Just heavy hymeneal bleeding, I'd say.’1978, AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden, page 422

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