marital congress

marital congress (uncountable)

1. sexual intercourse as performed by two people married to each other.
   • 1875, The Generative System and Its Functions in Health and Disease:

     The ardent desire which he felt to bring about that consummation of their mutual wishes led him into inordinate excess in his marital congress, and his spermatic secretion was consequently thin, and very deficient in spermatozoa.

   • 1887, A System of Gynecology:

     The labia may also be greatly enlarged from elephantiasis or from the presence of fibrous, cystic, or other tumors, so as to prevent marital congress.

   • 1889, Diseases of Women and Abdominal Surgery:

     Such instances of incompleteness of the marital act are most frequently to be explained by the nervous terror of the patient , and her refusal to submit to the act of marital congress.

   • 1922, The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation:

     Authorities on obstetrics, on the contrary, say that one of the causes of abortion in the early months of pregnancy is marital congress; and one of the sources of sepsis in women, which may result in the death of both mother and child.

   • 2016, Patrick Riley, Civilizing Sex:

     the generation of children . . . is achieved by marital congress

• marital act