mismarriagen.
/(ˌ)mɪsˈmarɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈmɛrɪdʒ/ An unsuitable marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > unsuitable
mismatching1643
mismarriage1817
1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond II. iv. 81 He was never the same man, especially since his last mis-marriage.
1852 T. Parker Let. Aug. in O. F. Brooks Theodore Parker (1874) xiv. 366 I had been talking with one who—and his wife equally—suffered intensely from a mismarriage, and took rather his view of the matter than my own.
1941 S. J. French Torch…Crucible 54 Jacques Paulze had no wish to force this mismarriage upon his daughter.
1965 Amer. Hist. Rev. 70 1195 Family status was of overriding importance, so that an ‘indisputably notorious mismarriage’ became a social disaster.
1985 J. Merrill Late Settings i. 23 I'd noted ‘heavenly colors and swell fish’—mismarriage of maternal gush to regular-guy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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