Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of coupling; union.
- noun A pair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
union ;combination ; acoupling ; apair
Etymologies
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Compare Old French couplement.
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Examples
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I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!
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If then in beings, and the three genera are all that is left, clearly it must find them in these, by conjunction and couplement with these, which will come into existence simultaneously with itself.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!
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I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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