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plural spouses
A person in a marriage or marital relationship. quotations examples
At last such grace I found, and meanes I wrought, / That I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 21
third-person singular simple present spouses, present participle spousing, simple past and past participle spoused
(dated) To wed; to espouse. quotations examples
Do you stand possess’dOf any proof against the honourablenessOf Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?
1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act III, scene II, verses 212-214