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misalliance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun misalliance has 1 sense
- misalliance(n = noun.state) Array - an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage); Array is a kind of marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock
has particulars: mesalliance
Derived form verb misally1
CIDE DICTIONARY
misalliance, n. [F. mésalliance.].
A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. [1913 Webster]
"A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed
A Howard should know it." [1913 Webster]
A Howard should know it." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
misalliance, n. an unsuitable alliance, esp. an unsuitable marriage.
Derivative
misally v.tr. (-ies, -ied).
Etymology
MIS-(1) + ALLIANCE, after M{Eacute}SALLIANCE
THESAURUS
misalliance
a world-without-end bargain, abnormality, alliance, anomaly, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, infelicity, intermarriage, interracial marriage, invalid linking, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladjustment, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misapplicability, misapplication, miscegenation, misconnection, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, misreference, misrelation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, uncongeniality, unfitness, union, unsuitability, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood
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