[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of joining together.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sec. Nun’s T., 95. Or elles Cecile … Is ioyned by a manere conioynynge Of heuene and lia.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 240. Matrimony, then, is a coupling and conjoining of the man and the woman.
1653. Baxter, Chr. Concord, 99. Building is conjoyning, and demolishing and destroying is dividing.
