OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 39926

hymeneal

/hʌɪməˈniːəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
himeneo
Pertaining to marriage.
I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.
It seems to me that girls ought to be early taught to discriminate, between the characteristic of a hymeneal connexion and of a dishonourable one apparently resembling it.