"Matrimony" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Marriage, (q. v.,) in the sense of tbe relatlon or status, not of the ceremony
A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the
nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
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Retired colonel, talking of the good old days: Have you ever hunted bear? His grandson's teacher: No, but I've been fishing in shorts.
In the civil law. Mar-riage. Among the Romans, a lawful mar-riage as distinguished from “concubinage," (q. «.,) which was an …
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