unmarriage en · NOUN
Etymology
From un- + marriage.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
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(countable, of a person, uncountable) 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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unmarriages | Number=Plur | lexicographic |