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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

one flesh en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

A biblical phrase, found for example in versions of Genesis 2:24 and Mark 10:8.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Two people united by marriage.
    • "This is reasonable and natural," returned Pathfinder; ". . . A woman would be likely to follow the man to whom she had plighted faith, and husband and wife are one flesh." 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 15, in The Pathfinder:
    • Mary: Have not I been the fast friend of your life Since mine began, and it was thought we two Might make one flesh, and cleave unto each other As man and wife? 1875, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, act V:
    • We know Christ's saying of the married that they are one flesh! 1911, John Galsworthy, “A Christian”, in Inn of Tranquility:

Deriveds

become one flesh