mixed marriagen.

1649 T. Paget Relig. Scrutiny 11 Conferring and humbling themselves frequently in private, at such times as overtures were with Spain, and shortly after which France, about King Charls his mixt marriage.

1699 T. Story Jrnl. (1747) 161 The Displeasure of God..against mixed Marriages between them [sc. Quakers] and the world.

1790 J. Dornford tr. J. S. Pütter Hist. Devel. German Empire III. ix. 332 In cases of a mixed marriage, the religion and guardianship of the children should be regulated by the marriage articles.

1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xviii. 212 They are the last to admit those monstrous and impious plans..which divide the children of mixed marriages, by training some to receive as truth, what others are to protest against as error.

1850 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. during 30 Years' Peace II. v. xi. 374 The Catholic clergy were beginning to object to the mixed marriages which they had hitherto sanctioned.

1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands ix. 178 The conditions of the Negro in the North are appalling—mixed marriages, nowhere to live and lay his head.

1966 New Statesman 15 Apr. 548/3 In this mixed marriage, she brings her talent from the world of working-girl and art student, weds it to the dandy showmanship that goes with a certain kind of aristocracy.

1970 J. Brown Un-melting Pot vii. 105 Even mixed marriages between Jamaicans and Barbadians.

1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) v. 59 ‘Poor lad, he comes from one of those..’ she lowered her voice, ‘mixed marriages. He was RC, the mother the other.’