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Marriage   /mˈɛrɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Marriage  n.  
1.
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. "Marriage is honorable in all."
2.
The marriage vow or contract. (Obs.)
3.
A feast made on the occasion of a marriage. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son."
4.
Any intimate or close union.
5.
In pinochle, bézique, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.
Marriage brokage.
(a)
The business of bringing about marriages.
(b)
The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage.
Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings.
Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in view, and in consideration, of marriage.
Synonyms: Matrimony; wedlock; wedding; nuptials. Marriage, Matrimony, Wedlock. Marriage is properly the act which unites the two parties, and matrimony the state into which they enter. Marriage is, however, often used for the state as well as the act. Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon term for matrimony.





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"Marriage" Quotes from Famous Books



... told to seek for immortality. If we are already immortal, it is hard to see why we should go on seeking for it. In another place we are told that they who are worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection of the dead, are not given in marriage. From this one would infer there would be some unworthy to be raised from the dead. Upon the question of immortality, the Old Testament throws but little satisfactory light. I do not deny immortality, nor would I endeavor to shake the belief of anybody in another life. What I am endeavoring to ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll
... describe the marriage of Sis and Woodward, or to recite here the beautiful folk-songs that served for the wedding music. As Mrs. Poteet remarked after it was all over, "They wer'n't a bobble frum beginnin' to en';" and when the wedding party started down the mountain in the early hours of the ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris
... marriage, it is certain that this is in harmony with reason, if the desire for physical union be not engendered solely by bodily beauty, but also by the desire to beget children and to train them up wisely; and moreover, ...
— The Ethics • Benedict de Spinoza
... and old, "Would I might one such cause for care behold!" To whom his Friend, "Mine greater bliss would be, Would Heav'n take those my spouse assigns to me." Aged were both, that Dawkins, Ditchem this, Who much of marriage thought, and much amiss; Both would delay, the one, till—riches gain'd, The son he wish'd might be to honour train'd; His Friend—lest fierce intruding heirs should come, To waste his hoard and vex his quiet home. Dawkins, a dealer once, on burthen'd ...
— The Parish Register • George Crabbe
... of correspondence which fully demands a volume alone to provide for the various phases incident to Love, Courtship and Marriage. Few persons, however otherwise fluent with the pen, are able to express in words the promptings of the first dawn of love, and even the ice once broken how to follow up a correspondence with the dearest one in the whole world and how to smooth the way with those who need to be consulted ...
— Down the Slope • James Otis


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