| 单词 | marriage payment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarriage payment marriage payment n. a payment of money or goods made to a bride or her parents by the bridegroom or his parents; cf. bride purchase n., bride wealth n. at bride n.1 Compounds 1b, bride price n. at bride n.1 Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > bride-price dower1382 dowry?a1505 marriage paymenta1652 bride price1863 mohar1863 lobola1905 bride wealth1931 kiddushin1936 a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iii. i. sig. C8v in Five New Playes (1653) Give earnest for't To half the value, (as my Faith and Troth I think, is somewhat towards your Marriage payment To be to morrow). 1844 Capt. McPherson Let. 10 July in Hist. Suppression Female Infanticide Orissa (Home Dept., Govt. of India) (1854) i. 68 On the cessation of infanticide, women would become abundant, and the marriage payment would become small. 1963 W. J. Goode World Revol. & Family Patterns iv. 167 The marriage payment or groom service points to the great concern with the legal possession of children. 1991 Stud. Family Planning 22 265/2 Marriage, defined in this study as..having received or made at least one roora, or marriage payment. 2008 T. Spencer-Walters in C. B. Hennon & S. M. Vilson Families in Global Context vii. 162 A wife can also be divorced due to desertion or continued adultery and the marriage payment is returned. < as lemmas |
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