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Marriage of convenience   /mˈɛrɪdʒ əv kənvˈinjəns/   Listen
Marriage of convenience

noun
1.
A marriage for expediency rather than love.





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"Marriage of convenience" Quotes from Famous Books



... between our family and the Count de Florac. I could not be wanting to the word given by my father. For how many long years have I kept it? But when I see a young girl who may be made the victim—the subject of a marriage of convenience, as I was—my heart pities her. And if I love her, as I love you, I tell her my thoughts. Better poverty, Ethel: better a cell in a convent: than a union without love. Is it written eternally that men are to make slaves of ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray


Words linked to "Marriage of convenience" :   marriage, spousal relationship, wedlock, union, matrimony


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