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unˈmarry, v.
[un-2 3, 7.]
1. trans. (and refl.). To dissolve the marriage of; to free from the marriage-tie; to divorce.
1530Palsgr. 768/2, I can unmary my selfe by ronnyng away. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 401 He doth vnmarry them, and setteth her at libertie that she may marry with an other. 1637Shirley Gamester i. i, Yes, I did marry you;..I would there were a parson to unmarry us! 1680Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. xii. 20 As he that marrieth Persons may not..unmarry them again, save for Adultery. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 59 If he does not first unmarry himself, I will never see him any more. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. viii, They are fast married, and can't be unmarried. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet II. 177 Nothing can unmarry you now.
absol.1708O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. 7 In fine, an After-Thought cannot unmarry; it cannot set a broken Leg.
b. To put away, to divorce (a wife).
1645Milton Tetrach. 49 Is it imaginable there should bee among these..a law giving permissions laxative to unmarry a wife and marry a lust? 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) III. 177 Though he did not live with her, he could not unmarry her.
2. intr. To free oneself from marriage.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 172 Having left her father, and unmarried and remarried againe at her pleasure. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox x. 244, I marry without injoying my wife, I unmarry, I marry again. 1769in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 172 We are unmarrying among the great; the Duke of Grafton's divorce was finished this morning. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. xvi. §3. 332 Thus people may neither marry nor unmarry without priorly obtaining permission from the priesthood. 1895How to get Married 86 Actors marry and unmarry ad libitum in a disgraceful way. |