Definitions for wedlock

wedlock wed·lock

Spelling: [wed-lok]
IPA: /ˈwɛdˌlɒk/

Wedlock is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in wedlock (cdeklow).

Definitions for wedlock

noun

  1. the state of marriage; matrimony.

Origin of wedlock

before 1100; Middle English wedlok, Old English wedlāc literally, a pledging, equivalent to wed pledge (see wed) + -lāc verbal noun suffix

Examples for wedlock

You ask, Why may not your brother be first engaged in wedlock?

This recognized family rights when paternity is established, whether a child was born in or out of wedlock.

The results are shocking: 96 percent of babies born to African American high school dropouts are born out of wedlock.

Accepting the conception of a child out of love—and out of wedlock.

You forgets that I've already been took in wedlock bonds by one lady.

A wench, man, and as tight a little craft as ever sailed into the port of wedlock.'

And she was one pro-life person who repeatedly opened her home to teenage women who had become pregnant out of wedlock.

I hope when your hearts are cemented by wedlock, you will both do better.

He and wedlock never yet once entered into my head at one time.

Mother and baby homes were where young women who had conceived out of wedlock were sent to have their babies.

Word Value for wedlock
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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