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misaˈlliance
[f. mis-1 4 + alliance, after F. mésalliance.]
An improper alliance, association, or union; esp. in reference to marriage = mésalliance.
1738Warburton Div. Legat. iii. iii. I. 350 The only Greek Masters he [sc. Plato] followed, were Pythagoras and Socrates... This was a monstrous Misalliance. 1755Chesterfield in World No. 114 IV. 84 Brutes..never degenerate, except in cases of mis-alliances with their inferiors. 1762Bp. Hurd Lett. Chivalry viii. 71 Their purpose was to ally..the Gothic, and the classic unity; the effect of which misalliance was to..expose the nakedness of the Gothic. 1768Woman of Honor II. 159 No remains of her former notions of mis-alliance, interfere to lessen her present vexation. 1839–40W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 189 They would have considered their mares disgraced, and their whole stud dishonoured by such a mis⁓alliance. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 34 A grocer's daughter would think she made a misalliance by marrying a painter. 1876Meredith Beauch. Career III. viii. 138 He had no wish to meet his uncle, whose behaviour in contracting a misalliance..appeared to him to call for the reverse of compliments. |