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the state of being a married- They have moved in together, joined bank accounts, and are trying to have children, but have no interest in matrimony.
matrimony = marriage
- They were joined in holy matrimony.
- Unless you had matrimonial plans concerning Miss Hill.Christopher Paul Curtis -- Bud, Not Buddy
- She lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail.Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat
- Mentally and spiritually dead, his mother had been handcuffed to his father by matrimony.Stephen King -- The Shining
- It seemed to her that only now she fully measured the great undertaking of matrimony.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- He taught his tribes how to fish with nets, to hunt and to rear domestic animals, divided the people into clans, and instituted matrimony.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- But in regard to matrimony, you are now at the most dangerous period of your life.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- So much that you would continue on with your matrimony just for their sake.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- To give me back the letters and any papers you may have that breathe of matrimony or worse.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Let her keep to her own matrimonial projects—if she has any.'Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- I did not want to be associated with the issue of a campesina who had had no respect for the holy banns of matrimony or for the good name of Mirabal.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- In 1940, my grandparents were united in holy matrimony.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- What did he say about the holy state of matrimony?Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- I'd just like to know my matrimonial prospects.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- "We are gathered here," Grant Cowper said cheerfully, "to join these two people in the holy bonds of matrimony.Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
- "A more determined enemy of matrimony than you I never saw," said Sergey Ivanovitch.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- Later I found out Payasa ended up pregnant and in a prison of matrimony somewhere.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- Really I like him extremely; is there not also a matrimonial engagement contemplated for him?Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize.George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
matrimony = marriage
matrimonial = marriage
matrimonial = marriage
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