Old English wedlac "pledge-giving, marriage vow," from wed + -lac, noun suffix meaning "actions or proceedings, practice," attested in about a dozen Old English compounds (feohtlac "warfare"), but this is the only surviving example. Suffix altered by folk etymology through association with lock (n.1). Meaning "condition of being married" is recorded from early 13c.
例文
1. The Fawleys were not made for wedlock .
範立家の人は結婚とは縁がない.
2.The court filiated the child born out of wedlock .
裁判所はこの非婚生の子供を養子にした。
3.So,that pedologist tells Russia,agricultural herd should be united in wedlock .
だから、ソ連の土壌学者は、農林牧は結合しなければならないと言った。
4.The same is true of restrictions on out of wedlock childbirth.
同様に、非婚生の子供の出産制限も同様である。
5.They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock .