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noun

Marriage n.

1.

The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. "Marriage is honorable in all."

2.

The marriage vow or contract. (Obs.)

3.

A feast made on the occasion of a marriage. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son."

4.

Any intimate or close union.

5.

In pinochle, bézique, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.

Marriage brokage.

(a)

The business of bringing about marriages.

(b)

The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage.

Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings.

Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in view, and in consideration, of marriage.

Synonyms: Matrimony; wedlock; wedding; nuptials. Marriage, Matrimony, Wedlock. Marriage is properly the act which unites the two parties, and matrimony the state into which they enter. Marriage is, however, often used for the state as well as the act. Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon term for matrimony.

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... spinsters were sisters; Charlotte, Laura, and Isabel Revel, daughters of the Honourable Mr Revel, a roue of excellent family, who had married for money, and had dissipated all his wife's fortune except the marriage settlement of 600 pounds per annum. Their mother was a selfish, short-sighted, manoeuvring woman, whose great anxiety was to form establishments for her daughters, or, in other terms, remove the expense of their maintenance from her own to the shoulders of other people, very indifferent whether ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... that she had not been unwilling to be Negu Mah's bride. It was true she had driven a sharp bargain with him—her father's debts paid, and sufficient more to ease her parents' life and educate her brothers and sisters. Plus a marriage settlement for herself, and a sum in escrow in the Earth Union bank, should she ever divorce him for cruelty or mistreatment. But that had been only innate shrewdness. She would still have married him had he refused her demands ...

— The Indulgence of Negu Mah • Robert Andrew Arthur

... of Polmaise; Lochluichart to Lord Ashburton; Rosehaugh in 1864, to the late James Fletcher, while that of Suddie was retained in the hands of the trustees under Sir James John Randoll Mackenzie's marriage settlement. ...

— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie

... fine collection of majolica and Marc Antonios, he had forged the names of his trustees to a power of attorney, which enabled him to get possession of some of the money which he had inherited from his mother, and had brought into marriage settlement. He knew that this forgery had been discovered, and that by returning to England he was imperilling his life. Yet he returned. Should one wonder? It was said that the woman was very beautiful. Besides, she did not ...

— Intentions • Oscar Wilde

... who had been one of the trustees for Mrs. Wilkins's marriage settlement, a respectable solicitor in the county town, and Mr. Ness, had been appointed executors of his will, and guardians to Ellinor. The will itself had been made several years before, when he imagined himself the possessor of a handsome fortune, the bulk of which he bequeathed to his only child. By her ...

— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell

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