Meaning of MISALLIANCE
| Pronunciation: | | `misu'lIuns
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| | Definition: | | [n] an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) |
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| | See Also: | | marriage, matrimony, mesalliance, union, wedlock | |
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| | Definition: | | \Mis`al*li"ance\, n. [F. m['e]salliance.]
A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station;
an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard
should know it. --Mrs.
Browning.
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| | Related Terms: | | a world-without-end bargain, abnormality, alliance, anomaly, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, infelicity, intermarriage, interracial marriage, invalid linking, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladjustment, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misapplicability, misapplication, miscegenation, misconnection, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, misreference, misrelation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, uncongeniality, unfitness, union, unsuitability, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood |
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