Wedlock
Wedlock , noun
[Anglo-Saxon wedlāc a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + lāc a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and compare Lake, v. i., Knowledge.]
1.
The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
That blissful yoke... that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord or continual strife?
2.
A wife; a married woman. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson
Wedlock , transitive verb
To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [Rare]
Man thus wedlocked.