| matrimony | | |
| n. (state) | 1. marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock | the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce).; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried. |
| ~ bigamy | having two spouses at the same time. |
| ~ common-law marriage | a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony. |
| ~ endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage | marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law. |
| ~ exogamy, intermarriage | marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law. |
| ~ marriage of convenience | a marriage for expediency rather than love. |
| ~ misalliance | an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage). |
| ~ monandry | the state of having only one husband at a time. |
| ~ monogamousness, monogamy | having only one spouse at a time. |
| ~ open marriage | a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other. |
| ~ cuckoldom | the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery. |
| ~ polygamy | having more than one spouse at a time. |
| ~ sigeh | a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years.; "sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak" |
| n. (act) | 2. matrimony | the ceremony or sacrament of marriage. |
| ~ sacrament | a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction. |
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