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Misalliance   Listen
noun
Misalliance  n.  A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. "A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Misalliance" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Gabriel, "and Rudolf Roth, as I happen to know, was indeed the designation of Maud Vavasour's papa. But so far as the question of derogation goes one might as well drown as starve—for what connexion is not a misalliance when one happens to have the unaccommodating, the crushing honour of being a Neville-Nugent of Castle Nugent? That's the high lineage of Maud's mamma. I seem to have heard it mentioned that Rudolf Roth was very versatile ...
— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

... having intended it. Morality arises out of the proper or improper performance of social obligations; and I have sometimes wondered whether society's most insane treatment of illegitimacy would not have compelled me into a misalliance with my 'mistress,' as you ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman



Words linked to "Misalliance" :   misally, matrimony, union



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