Word Finder - marriage

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The state of being married.

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You should enter marriage for love.

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A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.

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A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

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A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.

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You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.

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A close union.

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A joining of two parts.

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A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.

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In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.

For the first time, the idea of marriage crossed her mind.

Would he think she was pressuring him into marriage now?

If the purpose of food is nourishment and the purpose of marriage is the family, the whole question resolves itself into not eating more than one can digest, and not having more wives or husbands than are needed for the family--that is, one wife or one husband.

It sounds as if your marriage was very happy.

She didn't want to jump into marriage with a man she hardly knew, but she didn't want to chance loosing him, either.

A marriage is a partnership, not a dictatorship.

In the first place the marriage was not a brilliant one as regards birth, wealth, or rank.

Like marriage is a big deal?

You said marriage was for people who wanted to spend a lifetime together, not a few nights.

If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will.

Holdings hands like an old world family; we were committing our lives together like marriage vows.

From the time of his marriage Sonya had lived in his house.

It was yet another example of the way their marriage continued to mature.

That's what marriage is.

He wasn't talking about marriage.

I was talking marriage?

He'd given me 20 years of marriage.

Marriage was going to be a wonderful change.

Marriage was based on mutual respect.

I guess maybe hearing people talk... about their marriage.

You're the one who was spouting all the virtues of marriage.

The rest of the meal was taken up with light conversation about the weather, the clinic, the animals... anything but their feelings about marriage.

In the morning there were dirty dishes from the night before for the first time in their marriage.

That's what marriage is about, you know.

There was no point talking about what was right in their marriage right now.

What could be more important than their marriage?

No wonder he wanted out of the marriage.

But their marriage had always been so much more – or did she only think so?

Was there a chance to salvage their marriage?

They were two individuals joined in marriage because they wanted to be lifetime companions.

That was what marriage was about.

Marriage is a big step.

Enough to know his proposal of marriage was purely business.

Enough to know their marriage would be a mistake.

Mr. O'Hara could push all he wanted, but marriage and a baby would come at her pace, not his.

It wouldn't be easy to tell Denton the marriage was off.

When you're my age you'll wish you had taken his proposal of marriage more seriously.

This marriage is the best thing that could happen to either of us.

If they had to work at love during courtship, what would marriage be like - when he no longer needed to pretend affection?

Mr. O'Hara, I'd like to have your daughters hand in marriage.

His mother spoke of a rich woman often, one who sent her on errands when his mother was not wanted at the whorehouse where she made what living was afforded a poor woman beyond the marriage age.

He was present at the siege of Rouen, and the king committed to him personally the negotiations for the surrender of the city in January 1419 and for the marriage of Katherine.

With unbending dignity, however, he retained his antagonism; and shortly afterwards he was one of the thirteen cardinals who refused to attend the ceremony of the emperor's marriage with Marie Louise.

In both novels I pointed out the dangers and pains of an ill-assorted marriage.

Solange, who inherited all her mother's wild blood with none of her genius, on the eve of a marriage that had been arranged with a Berrichon gentleman, ran away with Clesinger, a sculptor to whom she had sat for her bust.

George Sand not only forgave the elopement and hushed up the scandal by a private marriage, but she settled the young couple in Paris and made over to them nearly one-half of her available property.

His marriage in March 1518 was arranged by the pope with Madeleine la Tour d'Auvergne, a royal princess of France, whose daughter was the Catherine de' Medici celebrated in French history.

The marriage of this youth to James IV.'s widow on the 6th of August 1514 did much to identify the Douglases with the English party in Scotland, as against the French party led by Albany, and incidentally to determine the political career of his uncle Gavin.

The first outcome of the new connexion was his appointment to the abbacy of Aberbrothock by the queen regent, before her marriage, probably in June 1514.

Soon after the marriage she nominated him archbishop of St Andrews, in succession to Elphinstone, archbishop-designate.