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n. The act or state of being married; marriage.

n. marriage or the state of being married

n. the marriage ceremony

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

n. A kind of game at cards played by several persons.

n. The relation of husband and wife, with especial reference to what concerns the latter; the state of marriage or wedlock; nuptial union; conjugal partnership.

n. The act of marriage; entrance upon the married state by a formal ceremony or procedure: as, the solemnization of matrimony by a clergyman. In the Roman Catholic Church matrimony is regarded as one of the sacraments.

n. Wife.

n. A game with cards.

n.

n. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

n. the ceremony or sacrament of marriage

"It had previously said that it was open to registering same-sex unions but wanted to reserve the term matrimony for heterosexual marriages."

sacrament   

wedlock    marriage   

patrimony   

wedlock    sacrament    baptism    marriage    capitulation    celibacy    motherhood    Eucharist    womanhood