All 10 Uses
matrimony
in
Emma, by Jane Austen
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- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October and November evening must be struggled through at Hartfield, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.†
Chpt 1.1-2matrimony = marriage
- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always disagreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affection, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- You might not give Emma such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and if Weston had asked me to recommend him a wife, I should certainly have named Miss Taylor.†
Chpt 1.5-6matrimonial = marriage (or related to marriage)
- I do not recommend matrimony at present to Emma, though I mean no slight to the state, I assure you.†
Chpt 1.5-6 *matrimony = marriage
- —I am sure nobody ought to be, or can be, a greater advocate for matrimony than I am; and if it had not been for the misery of her leaving Hartfield, I should never have thought of Miss Taylor but as the most fortunate woman in the world; and as to slighting Mr. Weston, that excellent Mr. Weston, I think there is nothing he does not deserve.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- I have no thoughts of matrimony at present.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- They continued together with unabated regard however, till the marriage of Miss Campbell, who by that chance, that luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior, engaged the affections of Mr. Dixon, a young man, rich and agreeable, almost as soon as they were acquainted; and was eligibly and happily settled, while Jane Fairfax had yet her bread to earn.†
Chpt 2.1-2matrimonial = marriage (or related to marriage)
- Happily he was not farther from approving matrimony than from foreseeing it.†
Chpt 2.5-6matrimony = marriage
- I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- 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?†
Chpt 2.13-14
Definitions:
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(1)
(matrimony) the state of being a married
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)