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Misalliance

noun
1.
An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage).





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"Misalliance" Quotes from Famous Books



... naturalisation, and lives here on terms of almost equality. If Mrs. Thrale chose to marry a music-master now, I don't think her friends would shudder at the mention of her name. If she had a good fortune and kept a good cook, people would even go and dine with her in spite of the misalliance, and actually treat Mr. Piozzi ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... seeds across a counter, that his sister had married a haberdasher, that his uncle (notoriously) was somewhere or other supplying the public with cheap repasts. Girls of Sidwell's delicacy do not misally themselves, for they take into account the fact that such misalliance is fraught with elements of unhappiness, affecting husband as much as wife. No need to dwell upon the scruples suggested by his moral attitude; he would never be called upon to combat them with reference ...
— Born in Exile • George Gissing
... taken from a printed volume containing the plays "Misalliance", "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets", "Fanny's First Play", and the essay "A Treatise on ...
— A Treatise on Parents and Children • George Bernard Shaw


Words linked to "Misalliance" :   wedlock, marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, mesalliance, misally


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