Definition of Matrimony

Matrimony

The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

A kind of game at cards played by several persons.

Related Definitions:

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Matrimony Quotations

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
George Carey

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A. P. Herbert

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
Frances Rodman

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
Alan Patrick Herbert

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Matrimony Translations

matrimony in Afrikaans is huwelik
matrimony in Dutch is huwelijk, echtverbintenis, echt
matrimony in French is conjungo
matrimony in Italian is stato matrimoniale
matrimony in Norwegian is ekteskap
matrimony in Spanish is matrimonio

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