Word Meanings - COVERTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. (more info) 1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding.

Additional info about word: COVERTURE

The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. (more info) 1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COVERTURE)

• Wedlock
• Marriage
• matrimony
• espousals
• nuptials
• coverture
• match

Related words: (words related to COVERTURE)

• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• MATCHLOCK
  An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
• MATRIMONY
  1. The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer 2. A kind of game at
• MATCH-CLOTH
  A coarse cloth.
• MATCH PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play.
• WEDLOCK
  lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord
• MATCH
  Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• MATCHMAKING
  1. The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. 2. The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.
• MATCH GAME
  A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games.
• COVERTURE
  The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. (more info) 1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• MATCH-COAT
  A coat made of match-cloth.
• MARRIAGEABLE
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
• MATCHLESS
  1. Having no equal; unequaled. "A matchless queen." Waller. 2. Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. "Matchless ears." Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n.
• MATCHABLE
  Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill.
• MATCHER
  One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• MISMATCH
  To match unsuitably.
• IMMATCHABLE
  Matchless; peerless. Holland.
• PARLOR MATCH
  A friction match that contains little or no sulphur.
• UNDERMATCH
  One who is not a match for another. Fuller.
• OVERMATCH
  1. To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. Drayton. 2. To marry to a superior. Burton.
• BICKFORD FUSE; BICKFORD FUZE; BICKFORD MATCH
  A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.