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• n  the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
• n  the ceremony or sacrament of marriage

• Let's start with the basic health of the institution: Americans still love matrimony.
• In effect, it would have held the church to the judgment on procreation handed down by Pope Pius XI in 1930that "any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that .
• They gave no thought to matrimony, but then neither had Esperanza's mother nor her older brothers and sisters.

• marriage
• union
• spousal relationship
• wedlock

News & Articles

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• Do you scream for ice cream… sodas?
  CINCINNATI - Thursday is National Ice Cream Soda Day and we have compiled a list of the Top 9 ice cream shops in the Tri-State. An ice cream soda, also called a float, is born when one of your favorite soda's marries a favorite ice cream in holy matrimony.
  June 21, 2013 - The Kentucky Post
• Parents Using Dating Sites to Find Matches for their Children
  Many mothers are now signing up for online dating, but not to find themselves a date. Sites like The J Mom, Duo and Telugu Matrimony help mothers find their sons and daughters a significant other.  "It's almost like outsourcing your online dating to your mom," Kevin Leland said, chief executive of TheJMom.com, a Jewish matchmaking site. The site has more than 5,000 registered members and is ...
  June 17, 2013 - Opposing Views
• Another 'Hills' Star is Married!
  Last weekend, Kristin Cavallari said "I do" and now another former Hills star has entered into holy matrimony. Frankie Delgado married girlfriend Jennifer Acosta Saturday and plenty of his castmates were there to cheer him on. Delgado, who's now best known for DJing for the Deftones, exchanged vows at the Rancho Las Lomas near Dana Point, Calif. in front of friends, family members, and famous ...
  June 16, 2013 - Zimbio

Quotes

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• Andrus Ansip in The Associated Press
  I consider marriage a holy matrimony between a man and a woman,Ansip said Wednesday. "But I do fully accept that same-sex partners possess the same kind of legal guarantees as registered marriages currently do."
• James E McGreevey in Seattle Times
  Shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,McGreevey said. "It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable."
• Celestino Migliore in International Herald Tribune
  For example, states which do not recognise same-sex unions as 'matrimony' will be pilloried and made an object of pressure,Migliore said.