Spousal

Definition: Spousal

Spousal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to a wedding; "bridal procession"; "nuptial day"; "spousal rites"; "wedding cake"; "marriage vows".

2. Relating to or celebrating marriage; "a fitting symbol of spousal love".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spousal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonyms: Spousal

Marriage

Matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal.

Crosswords: Spousal

Books

• Divorce In Ohio: A People's Guide to Marriage, Divorce, Dissolution, Spousal Support, Child Custody, Child Support, and Visitation Rights (5th Edition) (reference)

• How to Protect Your Spousal Rights (reference)

• How to Settle Child and Spousal Support with CalSupport for Windows 3 Ed (reference)

• Life Is for the Living: Recovering and Rebuilding After Spousal Loss (reference)

• Stopping Domestic Violence: How a Community Can Prevent Spousal Abuse (Prevention in Practice Library Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Spousal Arousal (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

There is, however, no national spousal abuse law. (references)

Actual figures may be higher because spousal abuse still goes largely unreported. (references)

The legislation expanded the crime of rape to include spousal rape, involving married or common law couples. (references)

Children

Macau

Nineteen cases of child abuse and 2 cases of spousal and child abuse were reported during the year. (references)

Jordan

The Unit deals primarily with child and spousal abuse, providing multiple in-house services, including medical treatment for patients. (references)

Macau

Only two cases were reported during the years 1998 and 1999. In 2000, 26 cases of child abuse, and 7 cases of spousal and child abuse were reported. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Under the Indian Divorce Act, a Christian woman may demand divorce only in cases of spousal abuse and certain categories of adultery; for a Christian man, adultery alone is sufficient. (references)

Political Economy

Barbados

There was also an increase in spousal abuse during the year. (references)

Women

Hungary

The laws criminalize spousal rape. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

French

privilège des confidences conjugales (spousal privilege). (various references)

Greek 

συζυγικόσ γάμοσ, γαμήλιοσ (bridal, connubial, hymeneal, matrimonial, nuptial, wedding). (various references)

Pig Latin

ousalspay

Russian 

супружеский (conjugal, connubial, husbandly, marital, matrimonial, wedded), супроужеский, брачный (conjugal, connubial, genial, hymeneal, marital, nubile, nuptial). (various references)

Swedish

bröllops, bröllop (double, doublet, wedding, wedding-feast, wedding-party). (various references)

Turkish

nikâha ait, nikâh (espousal, marriage, marriage contract, nuptial, nuptials, spousals, wedding, wedlock), evlilik (conjugal, connubial, hymen, marital, marriage, matrimony, nuptial, union, wedlock), evlenme (double harness, espousal, hymen, marital, marriage, match, matrimony, nuptial, sponsal, spousals), eş (better half, coequal, companion, compeer, consort, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, couple, doublet, duplicate, dutch, equal, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, husband, identic, identical, iso-, lady, like, match, matching, mate, old lady, old man, old woman, one of a pair, pair, Parti, partner, placenta, spouse, the missis, the old woman, wife). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spousal": spousals. (additional references)

Words ending with "spousal": espousal. (additional references)

Words containing "spousal": espousals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spousal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sposa. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lapsus.

-2 letters: lasso, loups, opals, psoas, salps, sauls, slaps, slops, soaps, solus, souls, soups.

-3 letters: alps, also, asps, laps, lass, lops, loss, loup, opal, opus, ossa, pals, pass, plus, pols, pula, puls, puss, salp, sals, saps, saul, slap, slop, soap, sola, sols, sops, soul, soup, sous, spas, sups, upas.

-4 letters: alp, als, asp, ass.

+1 letter: espousal, scopulas, sepalous, spousals, supposal.

+2 letters: espousals, pulsators, supposals.

+3 letters: fluorspars, playhouses, plesiosaur, postulants, postulates, pulsations, spaciously, sporulates, supposable, supposably.

+4 letters: blasphemous, cloudscapes, deutoplasms, houseplants, leucoplasts, outsparkles, pelycosaurs, plesiosaurs, popularises, postulators, speculators, stipulators, superalloys, sympetalous.

+5 letters: auspiciously, doublespeaks, expostulates, leprosariums, loudspeakers, nucleoplasms, polyanthuses, postsurgical, postulancies, postulations, prothalluses, psychosexual, pustulations, speculations, spiculations, sporulations, stipulations, superposable, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful.