What's the difference between married and wedlock?

Married


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Marry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (5) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
  • (6) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
  • (7) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
  • (8) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (9) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
  • (10) Of the 275 women with Crohn's disease 224 had been married at some time compared with 208 controls.
  • (11) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
  • (12) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
  • (13) Participants were younger, more likely to be male, less likely to be currently married, and more likely to have had a white-collar job and some postsecondary education than were nonparticipants.
  • (14) The author presents in this article just a small part of the results obtained in national survey of 1.902 married women, carried out in 1972, on "fertility and family planning in Spain".
  • (15) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
  • (16) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
  • (17) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
  • (18) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
  • (19) Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) obtained from married, adult males classified either as "copers" or as "non-copers" were tested for their natural killer (NK) activity and for the expression of the Leu 7 and Leu 11 NK-associated antigens.
  • (20) And if you think simply living together rather than marrying will help to keep you healthy, it is worth bearing in mind that research has found that cohabiting couples who separate are likely to be similarly affected .

Wedlock


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
  • (v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
  • (v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most liberal 19% also accept pregnancy out of wedlock, or lack of economic support as a sufficient reason, but another 14% reject any basis for abortion, though among those some would accept a few criteria if the abortion were performed by another doctor.
  • (2) The inability of young people to obtain contraceptive advice until after the penalty of bearing an out-of-wedlock child received comment.
  • (3) In 2010, he publicly apologised for fathering a child out of wedlock , said to be his 20th overall.
  • (4) In Sweden, the illegitimacy ratio is currently close to 1 out-of wedlock birth in every 2 births.
  • (5) Increasingly, white youth are subject to many of the same conditions that have produced high rates of early and out-of-wedlock childbearing among blacks.
  • (6) There was a 30% drop in total out of wedlock births in 1967 in the study area.
  • (7) I said, ‘I want to make sure you had it right that you resigned in my office’, and he said, ‘Absolutely.’” Patterson also denied that Eastside is being unfairly selective in its application of Catholic dogma by allowing divorced people and those living together out of wedlock to continue working at the school.
  • (8) Neither the level of AFDC benefits nor the AFDC acceptance rate appear to serve as economic incentives to out-of-wedlock childbearing; nor does the availability of contraception and abortion seem to encourage teenagers to initiate sexual activity.
  • (9) Conception had occurred out of wedlock in 85% of the cases.
  • (10) This paper examines the practice of informal adoption as a response to out-of-wedlock pregnancy among 54 black urban adolescent females.
  • (11) When other factors are held constant, race not white, previous reproductive loss, short interpregnancy interval, out-of-wedlock birth, no prenatal care, and maternal age under 18 years or over 35 years each increase the risk of having an infant of low birthweight.
  • (12) Experience in counseling confirms the contention of several authors that some out-of-wedlock pregnancies stem from subconscious reasons.
  • (13) At 3-6 mo postpartum, NNS questionnaires were mailed to mothers of live infants born in wedlock, and responses were weighted to permit national estimates.
  • (14) It also, he writes in the Social Animal, led to welfare policies that "enabled lonely young girls to give birth out of wedlock, thus decimating the habits and rituals that led to intact families".
  • (15) They shame and blame women rather than respect our right to make our own reproductive health decisions,” Clinton said, in a clear swipe at former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has been under fire this week for writing in 1995 that women should be shamed for having children out of wedlock.
  • (16) Whereas the proportion of women who legitimate births conceived out of wedlock declines sharply with increasing age among whites, the proportion stays very low for blacks in all 3 age-groups.
  • (17) In an email calling for broader awareness of the case, Michael Bunney, who organizes the LGBTQ community of the Seattle-based St Joseph’s parish, wrote that Eastside Catholic was inconsistent with “a policy that is selectively enforced against gay faculty but not against straight employees who are divorced or living together out of wedlock”.
  • (18) Comparatively many patients were born out of wedlock.
  • (19) They are the only ethnic group in Burma subjected to a two-child policy and severe travel limitations , while Rohingya babies born out of wedlock are denied entry to school and forbidden to marry.
  • (20) In addition, when the respondents' educational expectations were used as proxy measures of the potential opportunity costs of single parenthood, the results revealed that the higher their educational expectations, the lower their willingness to have an out-of-wedlock birth.

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