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- spousal (adj.)[spousal 词源字典]
- 1510s, "pertaining to marriage," from spouse (n.) + -al (1).[spousal etymology, spousal origin, 英语词源]
- spousal (n.)
- c. 1300, "a wedding ceremony, action of marrying; wedlock, condition of being espoused," from Anglo-French spousaille, Old French esposaille (see espousal). Earlier was spousage "marriage, wedlock" (mid-14c.).