(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?"
Wedlock
Definition:
(v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
(v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
(v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most liberal 19% also accept pregnancy out of wedlock, or lack of economic support as a sufficient reason, but another 14% reject any basis for abortion, though among those some would accept a few criteria if the abortion were performed by another doctor.
(2) The inability of young people to obtain contraceptive advice until after the penalty of bearing an out-of-wedlock child received comment.
(3) In 2010, he publicly apologised for fathering a child out of wedlock , said to be his 20th overall.
(4) In Sweden, the illegitimacy ratio is currently close to 1 out-of wedlock birth in every 2 births.
(5) Increasingly, white youth are subject to many of the same conditions that have produced high rates of early and out-of-wedlock childbearing among blacks.
(6) There was a 30% drop in total out of wedlock births in 1967 in the study area.
(7) I said, ‘I want to make sure you had it right that you resigned in my office’, and he said, ‘Absolutely.’” Patterson also denied that Eastside is being unfairly selective in its application of Catholic dogma by allowing divorced people and those living together out of wedlock to continue working at the school.
(8) Neither the level of AFDC benefits nor the AFDC acceptance rate appear to serve as economic incentives to out-of-wedlock childbearing; nor does the availability of contraception and abortion seem to encourage teenagers to initiate sexual activity.
(9) Conception had occurred out of wedlock in 85% of the cases.
(10) This paper examines the practice of informal adoption as a response to out-of-wedlock pregnancy among 54 black urban adolescent females.
(11) When other factors are held constant, race not white, previous reproductive loss, short interpregnancy interval, out-of-wedlock birth, no prenatal care, and maternal age under 18 years or over 35 years each increase the risk of having an infant of low birthweight.
(12) Experience in counseling confirms the contention of several authors that some out-of-wedlock pregnancies stem from subconscious reasons.
(13) At 3-6 mo postpartum, NNS questionnaires were mailed to mothers of live infants born in wedlock, and responses were weighted to permit national estimates.
(14) It also, he writes in the Social Animal, led to welfare policies that "enabled lonely young girls to give birth out of wedlock, thus decimating the habits and rituals that led to intact families".
(15) They shame and blame women rather than respect our right to make our own reproductive health decisions,” Clinton said, in a clear swipe at former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has been under fire this week for writing in 1995 that women should be shamed for having children out of wedlock.
(16) Whereas the proportion of women who legitimate births conceived out of wedlock declines sharply with increasing age among whites, the proportion stays very low for blacks in all 3 age-groups.
(17) In an email calling for broader awareness of the case, Michael Bunney, who organizes the LGBTQ community of the Seattle-based St Joseph’s parish, wrote that Eastside Catholic was inconsistent with “a policy that is selectively enforced against gay faculty but not against straight employees who are divorced or living together out of wedlock”.
(18) Comparatively many patients were born out of wedlock.
(19) They are the only ethnic group in Burma subjected to a two-child policy and severe travel limitations , while Rohingya babies born out of wedlock are denied entry to school and forbidden to marry.
(20) In addition, when the respondents' educational expectations were used as proxy measures of the potential opportunity costs of single parenthood, the results revealed that the higher their educational expectations, the lower their willingness to have an out-of-wedlock birth.