sponsal
sponsal adjective: relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Adjective
sponsal (not comparable)
- Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
- The sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians.1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64
- Boniface Llamera, St. Joseph (Herder, 1961), better preserves the primary character of the sponsal relationship when he writes: "The entire theology of St. Joseph (Josephology) has one first and principal basis: the marriage which united him to Mary."1963 January, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, volume 25, Catholic Biblical Association of America, page 455
- Synonyms:
- nuptial
Synonyms of sponsal
Origin of sponsal
From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.
Words that rhyme with sponsal
Questions about sponsal
- What does sponsal mean?
- Sponsal means relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
- What part of speech is sponsal?
- Sponsal is an adjective.
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