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conjugal

/ˈkɑnd͡ʒəɡəl/ adjective C2
  1. Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.
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Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 267 · B2
She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 267 · B2
As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 779 · C1

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