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sponsal

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • rhymes with -ɒnsəl

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adj

Meaning 1

Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

  • 1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64, The sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.