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   wedlock

   /ˈwɛdlɒk/

   noun

   • 1. the state of being married.

   Word Origin late Old Englishwedlāc ‘marriage vow’, from wed ‘pledge’ (related to wed) + the suffix -lāc (denoting action).

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   Where does the word 'out of wedlock' come from?

   • It comes up most often in the phrase "out of wedlock," when gossipers are describing a baby born to unmarried parents. Even though wedlock sounds like it would have a root meaning of "locked into marriage," it actually comes from the Old English wedlac, from wed, "pledge," and lac, which denotes action.

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   What does wedlock mean?

   • WEDLOCK definition: 1. the state of being married 2. the state of being married 3. the state of being married. Learn more.

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   What does it mean to be born out of wedlock?

   • The term is rarely used by itself simply to refer to the state of marriage other than in very formal religious contexts. Instead, wedlock is most commonly used in criticism of the actions of couples who are not married, most especially in the phrase born out of wedlock —meaning born when one’s parents are not legally married.

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   What happens if a woman has a child out of wedlock?

   • By 30, two-thirds of women will have had a child out of wedlock. In fact, most women who give birth out of wedlock strongly desire children. Unemployed men are more likely to commit crimes, end up in prison, get divorced, and father a child out of wedlock. In fact, today the majority of children are born out of wedlock.

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   What percentage of children are born out of wedlock?

   • And the percentage of children being born out of wedlock is rising -- to 41% overall, and 53% among kids born to women under 30. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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   Do illegitimacy rates relate to births out of wedlock?

   • While illegitimacy ratios relate the illegitimate to total births, illegitimacy rates relate births out of wedlock to the unmarried females capable of producing such infants. Therefore, the presence or absence of official wedlock should not be the criterion on which to treat the two women differently.

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   WEDLOCK definition: 1. the state of being married 2. the state of being married 3. the state of being married. Learn more.

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     WEDLOCK meaning: 1. the state of being married 2. the state...

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     WEDLOCK translate: 已婚狀態. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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   The meaning of WEDLOCK is the state of being married : marriage, matrimony. How to use wedlock in a sentence.

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   Define wedlock. wedlock synonyms, wedlock pronunciation, wedlock translation, English dictionary definition of wedlock. n. The state of being married; matrimony.

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   The noun wedlock means marriage; you might describe your newly-married sister as "entering the magical state of wedlock."

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   WEDLOCK meaning: 1. the state of being married 2. the state of being married 3. the state of being married. Learn more.