conjugial

English

Etymology

From Latin coniugiālis, from coniugium (“connection, marriage”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kənˈdʒuːɡɪəl/, /kənˈdʒuːdʒɪəl/

Adjective

conjugial (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of conjugal used by Swedenborg and his followers, used to distinguish their ideas about marital relations.
    • 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico 2007, p. 156:
      Claiming that he had ‘new information from heaven’, Swedenborg revealed that pre-marital sex with prostitutes or a mistress is not sinful, as long as the man maintains a belief in true conjugial love.
    • 1875, Emanuel Swedenborg (tr. unknown), Heaven and its wonders and Hell, page 246:
      When this conjunction, which is of the interiors, descends into the inferiors, which are of the body, it is perceived and felt as love; that love is conjugial love.
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