wedlock Idiom, Proverb
born out of wedlock
Idiom(s): born out of wedlockTheme: BIRTH
born to an unmarried mother.
• The child was born out of wedlock.
• In the city many children are born out of wedlock.
born out of wedlock|born|wedlock
adj. phr. Born to parents who are not married to each other; without legal parents. Sometimes when a married couple can't have children, they adopt a child who was born out of wedlock. Today we no longer make fun of children born out of wedlock.out of wedlock
out of wedlockOf parents not legally married, as in Over the centuries many royal children were born out of wedlock. The noun wedlock, for the state of being married, is rarely heard today except in this phrase, first recorded in 1675; its converse, in wedlock, dates from the 1300s and is even more rarely used.
wedlock
wedlocksee out of wedlock.
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