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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 - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); a long and happy marriage; God bless this union matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock, union law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; civilization presupposes respect for the law; the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order