misalliances
misalliances is the plural of misalliance.
Meaning of misalliance
Noun
misalliance (plural misalliances)
- An unsuitable alliance, especially an unsuitable marriage.
- That twice-flung taunt rankled still. It was monstrous to have been called a snob. A snob!—he, whose readiness to form what would certainly be regarded as a shocking misalliance ought to have stifled the charge, not merely vindicated him from it! He had forgotten, in the blindness of his love, how...1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC
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- What is misalliances the plural of?
- Misalliances is the plural of misalliance.
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