(v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
(v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.
(v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
(v. t.) Any intimate or close union.
Example Sentences:
(1) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(2) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(3) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(4) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(5) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
(6) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(9) It wasn't the best marriage – Jackie left me in 1962 when my first son, Paul, was 18 months old.
(10) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(11) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(12) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(13) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(14) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
(15) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
(16) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(17) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
(18) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(19) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(20) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.
Matrimony
Definition:
(n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
(n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a test case that significantly expands the media's ability to report on matrimonial hearings, Mrs Justice Roberts has permitted everything conducted in a private hearing to be published for the first time – apart from financial information relating to the couple's personal or business affairs.
(2) On a Muslim matrimonial site, Muslima.com, where he was seeking a second wife, Abdaly, 29, listed Luton as his home, and said he had met his first wife in Bedfordshire.
(3) Catholics will be urged to protect the "true meaning" of matrimony as the Catholic church steps up its campaign against government plans for gay marriage.
(4) The paper analyses results after investigation of free selection of families, parents myopia selected by signs and a definite minimum age of their first-order offsprings, including 108 matrimonial couples with the total number of 209 children.
(5) The essential differences were found in the matrimonial status and the socioprofessional categories.
(6) Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?” In its catechism, the Catholic church brands “homosexual acts … intrinsically disordered” and the pope, while encouraging a more welcoming stance towards gay people, has said nothing that deviates from that.
(7) The data are analyzed with a view to finding differences in the distributions of matrimonial distances among the caste groups, and to examine the relationship of the inbreeding coefficients of these gorups with their mean matrimonial distances and population sizes.
(8) In an attempt to relate the degree of inbreeding to the mean matrimonial distance and population size, it was found that the former is more useful in predicting the degree of inbreeding than population size.
(9) Where better to shake off the taint of matrimonial metaphor and renew their alliance on a more business-like footing than in Basildon?
(10) Data on the distance between the birthplaces of spouses - matrimonial distance - were collected from 2260 married individuals belonging to 21 endogamous castes of the Dhangar (shepherd) caste-cluster of Maharashtra, India.
(11) He said the marriage act is based on important elements of Australian federation and couples bound by it have access to "matrimonial clauses", including divorce.
(12) Thirty men with fertility disorders, 21 to 42 years of age (mean 29 years) and mean duration of sterile matrimony 4 years 7 months received Vitaton treatment.
(13) It is one that is still to be adequately researched and its wounds properly examined (as Paltrow's "love guru" and matrimonial discord adviser, Dr Habib Sadeghi, might say) with appropriate help provided.
(14) Extra-matrimonial conceptions probably often occur, for that reason any statement about fertility of man is inaccurately.
(15) Many of the patients suffered from disturbed matrimonial relations, and 36 lived unmarried, divorced, or widowed.
(16) Further examination is made of the differences in matrimonial differences and inbreeding coefficients in terms of sociocultural norms regulating choice of mates, geographic dispersal of population, and migrational history, concluding that the situation is in conformity with norms prevailing in south and north India.
(17) In the 1970s, we campaigned for the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act which gave women more legal options for escape, and for the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act to include proper provision for women homeless through domestic violence.
(18) This effect cannot be explained by either an association of the smoking habit with malformation, premature birth, exaggerated consumption of coffee matrimonial status or paternal smoking, or by a combination of malformation, prematurity and any one of the other factors.
(19) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
(20) The state electoral commission, citing initial results, said 65% of those who voted answered "yes" to the referendum question: "Do you agree that marriage is matrimony between a man and a woman?"