Spous″al, n. [See Espousal, Spouse.] Marriage; nuptials; espousal; — generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden.
Boweth your head under that blissful yoke...
Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer.
The spousals of the newborn year. Emerson.