connubiality

"Come," he whispered, "let us slip away for a period and solemnize the connubiality."

The amorous contact imagined by the jealous man is the only way he can picture with verisimilitude the beloved's connubiality, which, if doubtful, is at least possible, whereas his own is impossible.

They enjoined marriage between equals as the samurai's duty to the race, and they framed directions of the precisest sort to prevent that uxorious inseparableness, that connubiality which will reduce a couple of people to something jointly less than either.