(a.) Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though his heart's in the right place, connubially and ecologically, Walter is no less flawed than the other characters, and his fanatical campaign, in the novel's coda, to have his neighbours keep their cats indoors so as to save the local bird-life, is comic as well as sad.
(2) Our results suggest the existence of both a genetic and connubial effect on CEA, presumably due to a common environmental agent acting in concert with the degree of genetic predisposition to oncogenesis in this syndrome.
Nubile
Definition:
(a.) Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was as if these middle-aged back-office executives were as famous as Lost's nubile stars.
(2) Carrie Fisher has given us the thing even the most far-flung space fantasist has struggled to imagine – a middle-aged mother who is just as powerful and important as she was as a nubile princess.
(3) Both girls are nubile and enjoy a normal school attendance.
(4) But when I picked up a copy of the paper, my confusion gave way to an emotion now familiar to me when confronted with the sight of nubile, healthy breasts – awkwardness.
(5) Emmanuelle Riva is now 85, Jean-Louis Trintignant is 81; because films from the 1950s preserve their nubile youth – Riva in bed with her Japanese lover in Hiroshima Mon Amour , Trintignant worshipping the bosom of Bardot in And God Created Woman – it's alarming to see them now with stiff but fragile limbs and worn, sagging faces.
(6) On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality.
(7) Still got the Lego students, though ... YorkerBouncer 15 August 2013 1:02pm Right, I have now scrolled to the bottom of this A-Level so-called "story" and there have been absolutely no pictures of nubile girls jumping.
(8) Any remarks Uncle Disgusting made about the comeliness of said nubile females were countered in print either with an onomatopoeic representation of someone vomiting (which, if memory serves, went “SPEEEEEEEOOOOOW!”) or with the phrase “pass the sickbag, Alice”.
(9) Elsewhere, there's needless repetition of the phrase "crazy ball" and a video that consists entirely of nubile young men and women being covered in melted chocolate.
(10) The incidence of anovulation increased over the age period of 20-25 yr, with a peak at 25 yr. A close parallel was found of the period of anovulation and the period of nubility.
(11) "Hef employs an elaborate system of procurement to keep the pipeline filled with willing nubile women," she explains.
(12) I don’t want to play someone’s wife and become a joke about plastic surgery.” Cattrall also talked about industry “pressure to stay young, and be young and bubbly and nubile: it’s suffocating”, but said she is much more encouraged by trends in high-quality television drama in recent years.
(13) Some stores think nothing of placing nubile female figures or risqué manga next to more mainstream fare.
(14) Any ageing rocker who surrounded himself with nubile females was referred to as “Uncle Disgusting”.
(15) It's clear, then, that Dodgson had a submerged erotic fascination with the nubile female form.
(16) (In universities, at around the same time, the new field of evolutionary psychology was explaining that heterosexual human mating rituals were a compromise between males who wanted sex and females who wanted protection – and had to rely on their nubility to get it.)