Marriage
258. Marriage
See also 348. RELATIONSHIP ;418. WIFE
- adelphogamy
- the form of marriage in which brothers have a common wife or wives. —adelphogamic , adj.
- bigamy
- the state or practice of being married to more than one wife or one husband at a time. —bigamist , n. —bigamous , adj.
- celibacy
- the state of being single or unmarried, especially in the case of one bound by vows not to marry. —celibate , n., adj.
- celibatist
- an advocate of celibacy.
- cicisbeism
- the practice of a married woman having an escort or cavalier, called a cicisbeo, in attendance.
- deuterogamy
- digamism. —deuterogamist , n. —deuterogamous , adj.
- digamism, digamy
- a second legal marriage after the termination of a first marriage by death or divorce. Also called deuterogamy. —digamist , n. —digamous , adj.
- endogamy
- the custom of marrying only within one’s tribe or similar social unit. —endogamic, endogamous , adj.
- epithalamium, epithalamy
- a song or poem composed and performed in honor of a bride or groom.
- exogamy
- the practice of marrying only outside one’s tribe or similar social unit. —exogamic, exogamous , adj.
- gamomania
- 1. Obsolete, a form of mania characterized by strange and extravagant proposals of marriage.
- 2. an excessive longing for the married state.
- gamophobia
- an abnormal fear of marriage.
- mariticide
- the killing of a husband. —mariticidal , adj.
- matrimony
- the act or state of marriage; married life. —matrimonial , adj.
- misogamy
- a hatred of marriage. —misogamist , n. —misogamic , adj.
- monandry
- the custom of marriage to only one man at a time. —monandrous , adj.
- monogamy
- the custom of marriage to one wife or one husband at a time. —monogamous , adj.
- morganatic
- designating or pertaining to a marriage between a man of high social standing and a woman of lower station in which the marriage contract stipulates that neither she nor their offspring will have claim to his rank or property.
- neogamist
- a person recently married; a newlywed.
- nubility
- the condition of being marriageable, especially in reference to a woman’s age or physical development. —nubile , adj.
- pantagamy
- a form of marriage in which every woman in a community is married to every man and every man is married to every woman. —pantagamic , adj.
- paranymph
- the best man or maid of honor at a wedding.
- polyandry
- the practice of having two or more husbands at a time. —polyandrous , adj.
- polygamy
- the practice or state of being married to more than one person at a time. —polygamous , adj.
- polygyny
- the practice of having two or more wives at a time. —polygynous, polygynious , adj.
- prothalamion, prothalamium
- a nuptial or wedding song or verse.
- trigamy
- the condition of having three spouses, especially in the criminal sense of having them simultaneously. —trigamous , adj.
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