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Matrimony   /mˈætrəmˌoʊni/   Listen
noun
Matrimony  n.  
1.
The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. "If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it."
2.
A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family.
Synonyms: Marriage; wedlock. See Marriage.





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"Matrimony" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter to Valeria, in which they begged her to be open with them, and to say to which she would be ready to give her hand. Valeria showed this letter to her mother, and declared that she was willing to remain unmarried, but if her mother considered it time for her to enter upon matrimony, then she would marry whichever one her mother's choice should fix upon. The excellent widow shed a few tears at the thought of parting from her beloved child; there was, however, no good ground for refusing the suitors, she considered both of them equally worthy of her daughter's hand. ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev
... spirit of themselves. Surely, she should be happy, Aline, the beautiful girl made for love, poetic, tender. The lovely eyes were there, but veiled; the velvety skin had roughened; and the small body was almost heavy. The wood nymph had been submerged in matrimony. ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... and the gleam of the gold wedding-ring on her finger, which placed her definitely in the category of womanhood; and the man who watched her felt a strange sensation of something like pity for the girl launched so early on the sea of matrimony, a sea whose perils he, of all men, had cause ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... governor, I know not whence this man cometh; but he is one who teaches that matrimony is unlawful. Command him therefore to declare before you for what reason he ...
— The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete • Archbishop Wake
... Why is matrimony like a besieged city? Because those who are in it wish to be out, and those who are out ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole


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