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Conjoin   /kˌɑndʒˈɔɪn/   Listen
Conjoin

verb
(past & past part. conjoined; pres. part. conjoining)
1.
Make contact or come together.  Synonym: join.
2.
Take in marriage.  Synonyms: espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed.






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"Conjoin" Quotes from Famous Books



... understanding of a man. These loves, viz., of one man to another, and of one woman to another, do not enter deeply into the bosom, but remain without, and only touch each other; thus they do not interiorly conjoin the two parties: wherefore also two men, by their mutual reasonings, sometimes engage in combat together like two wrestlers; and two women, by their mutual concupiscences, are at war with each other like two prize-fighters. But the love of a man and ...
— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg

... affairs, practically necessary indeed, but of little import in comparison with supernatural objects of knowledge. When we add to this motive the force derived from the literary character of the Roman education and the Greek philosophic tradition, and conjoin to them the preference for studies which obviously demarcated the aristocratic class from the lower classes, we can readily understand the tremendous power exercised by the persistent preference of the "intellectual" over the "practical" not simply in educational philosophies but ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

... paths of youth and love; The wonder of all eyes that look upon her, Sacred on earth, designed a saint above. Chastity and beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconciled friends within her brow; And had she pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now? O had she not been fair and thus unkind, My Muse had slept and none had ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles - Delia - Diana • Samuel Daniel and Henry Constable

... deck'd with a blush of honour, Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love; The wonder of all eyes that look upon her, Sacred on earth, design'd a Saint above. Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconciled friends within her brow; And had she Pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now? For had she not been fair, and thus unkind, My Muse had slept, and ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... thyself so pampered, I beg thou wilt conjoin to justice its semblance and forgive thy poor servant the penalty ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne


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