Definition
Two people united by marriage.
Origins
A biblical phrase, found for example in versions of Genesis 2:24 and Mark 10:8.
In Context
- ""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.""
- "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?"
- "We know Christ's saying of the married that they are one flesh!"