| 单词 | free union |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree union free union n. [after French union libre (1839 or earlier)] cohabitation of a couple without marriage; a relationship of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > cohabitation cohabitation1548 bed-companya1555 free union1852 shacking1884 shack-up1935 1852 M. E. Lazarus Love vs. Marriage vi. 102 Marriage is an institution rendered compulsory on both sexes by the loss of caste consequent on free unions. 1886 H. James Bostonians (1998) 115 There was as little comfort for Olive as there had been on the whole alarm in the recollection of that off-hand speech of Verena's about her preference for ‘free unions’. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Sept. The classic marriage formula is challenged by seven respondents out of 10, who prefer either a free union or a totally rethought marriage. 1999 Feminist Rev. No. 63. 112 Not surprisingly this kind of writing shifted the marriage debate in the directions of sisterhood, celibacy, lesbian love and ‘free union’. < as lemmas |
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