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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.
Historical Examples. 1  This is supposed to typify the consummation of the marriage, but the ceremony is purely formal as the bridal couple are children. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV R.V. 2  The consummation had been fitly rounded out by the changes in the Constitution.