matrimony

The act or state of being married; marriage.

The relation of husband and wife, with especial reference to what concerns the latter; the state of marriage or wedlock; nuptial union; conjugal partnership.

The act of marriage; entrance upon the married state by a formal ceremony or procedure: as, the solemnization of matrimony by a clergyman. In the Roman Catholic Church matrimony is regarded as one of the sacraments.

Wife.

A game with cards.

The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

A kind of game at cards played by several persons.

a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family.

marriage or the state of being married