bridegroom
IPA: brˈaɪdgrum
noun
- A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
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Examples of "bridegroom" in Sentences
- He is the bridegroom at the wedding.
- The bride belongs to the bridegroom.
- The friends and relatives congratulate the bridegroom.
- At the wedding feast, the people praise the bridegroom.
- In the New Testament, Jesus is the Bridegroom and Husband.
- The bridegroom performs the Achamana and Angasparsha with water.
- Nevertheless, the ostensible bridegroom was knighted by the queen.
- God is the passionate lover, the bridegroom in the Song of Solomon.
- This was John the Baptist's status as the 'friend of the Bridegroom'.
- The bridegroom was taken away by the soldiers in front of the family.
- In one, for example, a young bridegroom is shown getting out of bed the morning after his wedding night.
- The bridegroom is what the world chooses to call an idle man; that is to say, he has scholarship, delicate health, and leisure.
- I became known as the bridegroom who lost his bride, and between the veiled accusations and the half-covered snickers, life was pretty miserable.
- Now they were as the children of the bride-chamber, when the bridegroom is with them, when they have plenty and joy, and every day is a festival.
- Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
- When the governor of the feast tasted the water that was made wine, he called the bridegroom to him and said, At the beginning, every man sets out the good wine, and, when men have drunk well, then he sets out the lesser, but you have kept the good wine until now!
- The children of the bride-chamber will mourn when the bridegroom is taken away (Matt.ix. 15), especially for the sin which provoked him to withdraw; and, if we do so, we shall be in care to recover the sense of his favour and diligent and constant in the use of proper means in order thereunto.
- The royal bridegroom is a man of war, and his nuptials do not excuse him from the field of battle (as was allowed by the law, Deut.xxiv. 5); nay, they bring him to the field of battle, for he is to rescue his spouse by dint of sword out of her captivity, to conquer her, and to conquer for her, and then to marry her.
- When the one in charge of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, he did not know where it came from (although the servants who had poured out the water knew), so he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Every one serves the good wine first, and the wine that is not so good after men have drunk freely; but you have kept the good wine until now."
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