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Wedded   /wˈɛdəd/  /wˈɛdɪd/   Listen
verb
Wed  v. t.  (past wedded; past part. wedded or wed; pres. part. wedding)  
1.
To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. "With this ring I thee wed." "I saw thee first, and wedded thee."
2.
To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. "And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her."
3.
Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. "Thou art wedded to calamity." "Men are wedded to their lusts." "(Flowers) are wedded thus, like beauty to old age."
4.
To take to one's self and support; to espouse. (Obs.) "They positively and concernedly wedded his cause."


Wed  v. i.  To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed."


adjective
Wedded  adj.  
1.
Joined in wedlock; married.
2.
Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love."





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"Wedded" Quotes from Famous Books



... blaze of ten thousand homes glutted his Imperial lust for spectacle. Divorce the unworthy song, stay the voluptuous dance, and the music suffers no clinging defilement; the redeemed melodies, stainless as fresh-fallen snow, may be wedded to songs of gallant aspiration or angelic sympathy, which shall raise the soul awhile above earth's sordid infection, disclosing the inextinguishable affinity of the divine part of man's dual nature with the dream-like possibility of Eden—purity, ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... the hands of Sir Francis Mitchell," replied the promoter, shaking-him off; "and, for aught I know, may be wedded ...
— The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth
... Englishman. (Popular traditionally but strictly speaking supplementary.)—"An Englishman's house is his castle," but only the pied a terre of the lawfully wedded sharer of ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 28, 1891 • Various
... Walnuts were scattered among the people when a marriage was celebrated, as an intimation that the wedded couple henceforth abandoned the ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... a man and woman who, marrying for love, yet try to build their wedded life upon a gospel of hate for each other and yet win back to a greater love for each other in ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres


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