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marital

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈmæɹɪtəl//

Pertaining to marriage.

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to marriage.

    marital affairs

    marital bliss

    marital issues

    marital pleasure

  2. 2

    obsoletePertaining to a husband.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French marital, and its source, Latin marītālis, from marītus (“husband”).

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).