We found 3 definitions of matrimonies from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: matrimonies |
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matrimony - the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | ||
matrimony - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" | ||
marriage, union, spousal relationship, wedlock | ||
marital status the condition of being married or unmarried | ||
jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
bigamy the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | ||
common-law marriage a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony | ||
endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | ||
exogamy, intermarriage marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | ||
marriage of convenience a marriage for expediency rather than love | ||
misalliance an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | ||
monandry the state of having only one husband at a time | ||
monogamousness, monogamy having only one spouse at a time | ||
open marriage a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other | ||
cuckoldom the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | ||
polygamy having more than one spouse at a time |