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  • 11marriage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Legal union Nouns 1. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union; intermarriage, nuptial tie, married state, bed and board, cohabitation, POSSLQ (person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters), wedded… …

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  • 12matrimony — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. marriage, espousal; nuptials. See rite, mixture. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. conjugality, wedlock, union; see marriage 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. holy wedlock. see marriage IV …

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  • 13conjugal — adjective Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conjugalis, from conjug , conjux husband, wife, from conjungere to join, unite in marriage Date: 1545 of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their… …

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  • 14Pacte civil de solidarité — Legal recognition of same sex relationships Marriage Argentina Belgium Canada Iceland Netherlands Norway Portugal South Africa Spain Sweden …

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  • 15conjugally — See conjugality. * * * …

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  • 16cohabitation — I (living together) noun abiding together, act of dwelling together, alliance, living together in sexual intimacy, lodging together, lodging together as husband and wife, occupying the same domicile, residing together, rooming together associated …

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  • 17marriage — mar·riage / mar ij/ n 1: the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law see also divorce 2: the ceremony… …

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  • 18coverture — cov·er·ture / kə vər ˌchu̇r, chər/ n [Anglo French, literally, shelter, covering, from Old French, from covert, past participle of covrir to cover]: the inclusion of a woman in the legal person of her husband upon marriage under common law ◇… …

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  • 19matrimony — I noun alliance, cohabitation, conjugality, connubiality, consortium, espousal, espousement, joining, marriage, marriage tie, married life, married state, married status, match, mating, matrimonium, nuptial bond, nuptial state, nuptial tie,… …

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  • 20wedlock — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. matrimony, nuptials, espousal; see marriage 2 , union 3 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. matrimony, union. see marriage III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state of being united as husband and wife: conjugality,… …

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