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marital congress

marital congress noun: sexual intercourse as performed by two people married to each other.

Noun

marital congress (uncountable)

  1. Sexual intercourse as performed by two people married to each other.
    • The ardent desire which he felt to bring about that consummation of their mutual wishes led him into inordinate excess in his marital congress, and his spermatic secretion was consequently thin, and very deficient in spermatozoa.1875, The Generative System and Its Functions in Health and Disease
    • The labia may also be greatly enlarged from elephantiasis or from the presence of fibrous, cystic, or other tumors, so as to prevent marital congress.1887, A System of Gynecology

Examples of marital congress in a sentence

  • Such instances of incompleteness of the marital act are most frequently to be explained by the nervous terror of the patient , and her refusal to submit to the act of marital congress.1889, Diseases of Women and Abdominal Surgery:
  • the generation of children . . . is achieved by marital congress2016, Patrick Riley, Civilizing Sex:

Questions about marital congress

What does marital congress mean?
Marital congress means sexual intercourse as performed by two people married to each other.
How do you use marital congress in a sentence?
Such instances of incompleteness of the marital act are most frequently to be explained by the nervous terror of the patient , and her refusal to submit to the act of marital congress.
What part of speech is marital congress?
Marital congress is a noun.

Words near marital congress in the dictionary

  1. maritagium
  2. Maritainian
  3. marital
  4. marital aid
  5. marital aids
  6. marital congress
  7. marital duties
  8. marital embrace
  9. marital name
  10. marital rape
  11. marital rapes

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