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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
marriage (plural marriages) 1  The state of being married. [from 14th c.] You should enter marriage for love. 2  A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.