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unmarriage

unmarriage noun: cohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.

Noun

unmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural unmarriages)

  1. Cohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.
    • Of course, unmarriage isn't a guarantee of love everlasting any more than marriage is.2009, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time, volume 173, numbers 17-26
  2. The condition of staying not married.
    • If I sum up my statement thus: "Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many," […]2000, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Michael Wiley Perry, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Forms of unmarriage

pluralunmarriages

Origin of unmarriage

From un- + marriage.

Questions about unmarriage

What does unmarriage mean?
Unmarriage means cohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.
What part of speech is unmarriage?
Unmarriage is a noun.
What is the plural of unmarriage?
The plural of unmarriage is unmarriages.

Words near unmarriage in the dictionary

  1. unmarkt
  2. unmarled
  3. unmarrable
  4. unmarred
  5. unmarriable
  6. unmarriage
  7. unmarriageability
  8. unmarriageable
  9. unmarriageableness
  10. unmarriageably
  11. unmarriages

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