Matrimony
['mætrɪmənɪ] or ['mætrɪmoni]
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.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Marriage, wedlock, nuptial state.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See WEDLOCK]
Inputed by Lawrence
Definition
n. union of husband and wife marriage: state of marriage.—adj. Matrimō′nial relating to derived from marriage.—adj. Matrimō′nially.
Edited by Constantine
Unserious Contents or Definition
A game for women, in which the unmarried half are trying to find a husband and the married half trying not to be found out by one. Both halves are eminently successful.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- I fancy it was the sight of Worcester and me together, so Darby and Joan-like, that first put the good soldier in mind of matrimony. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I did not know before, that I had two daughters on the brink of matrimony. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- You are going to try matrimony. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony sacred in the highest degree, and what is most beneficial will be deemed sacred? Plato. The Republic.
- But thirty-five has nothing to do with matrimony. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But, my dear papa, you are no friend to matrimony; and therefore why should you be so anxious to pay your respects to a _bride_? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Had I revealed myself, and suggested the marriage, with the natural dislike of a young man to be forced into matrimony, you might have objected. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Happily he was not farther from approving matrimony than from foreseeing it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It is in _youth_ that we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to profession, pursuits, and matrimony. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Perhaps, said Elinor, thirty-five and seventeen had better not have any thing to do with matrimony together. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- A reg'lar coachman's a sort o' con-nectin' link betwixt singleness and matrimony, and every practicable man knows it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So I told him he might still address me as an unmarried lady, though if I hadn't been so particular, I'd had good chances of matrimony. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A struggling barrister to think of matrimony! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Checker: Rupert