Wedded
['wedɪd]
Definition
(imp.) of Wed
(p. p.) of Wed
(a.) Joined in wedlock; married.
(a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.
Typist: Tim
Examples
- Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But he dreaded to contemplate Thomasin wedded to the mere corpse of a lover that he now felt himself to be. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All times are good to seek your wedded home Bringing a mutual delight. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am wedded to the best and most generous of men--Miss Crawley's Rawdon is MY Rawdon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Wedded to Rowena, indeed, her nobler and more generous soul may yet awake the better nature which is torpid within him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Accepted or refused, his heart is wedded to her for ever. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He was wedded already to his books and his parish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We were quietly married at a registry office, and we returned to Norfolk a wedded couple. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Close wedded by that mystic cord, Her continents are one. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Tim