mésalliancen.

Brit.

/mɛˈzalɪəns/, U.S.

/ˌmeɪzəˈlaɪəns/

Forms: 1700s– mesalliance, 1800s– mésalliance.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mésalliance.

Etymology: < French mésalliance (1666) < mésallier misally v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare earlier misalliance n. N.E.D. (1906) records only the pronunciation (mezalyāṅs) /mezaljɑ̃ːs/. An anglicized pronunciation is, however, given as the commonest pronunciation in editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. from the earliest (1917) onwards.

A union between two people that is thought to be unsuitable or inappropriate; esp. a marriage with a person of a lower social position. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of persons of unequal rank > with social inferior

misalliance1738

left-handed marriage1760

mésalliance1782

hypogamy1946

1782 H. Walpole Let. 25 June We are well off when from that mesalliance there spring some bastards called Episodes.

1827 Hansard Commons 12 June 1255 An account of a union, or rather of what the French called a mésalliance between a man of colour and a white woman.

1879 Paris Sketch Bk. in W. M. Thackeray Wks. XVI. 41 In England..a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance [1840 misalliance] by marrying a painter.

1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. x. 161 It seems hardly likely that another prince will make a mésalliance for the sake of a Milovitch.

1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap xvii. 300 If she were right, a mésalliance need not be feared.

1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. xvi. 56 The friends protested, dismayed at such a mesalliance having been arranged for under, so to speak, their auspices.

1972 Q. Bell Virginia Woolf I. i. 20 When one of Julia's relations did make a really disastrous mésalliance the young couple were firmly but kindly removed to the colonies.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mésalliance
释义	mésalliancen. Brit. /mɛˈzalɪəns/, U.S. /ˌmeɪzəˈlaɪəns/ Forms: 1700s– mesalliance, 1800s– mésalliance. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mésalliance. Etymology: < French mésalliance (1666) < mésallier misally v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare earlier misalliance n. N.E.D. (1906) records only the pronunciation (mezalyāṅs) /mezaljɑ̃ːs/. An anglicized pronunciation is, however, given as the commonest pronunciation in editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. from the earliest (1917) onwards. A union between two people that is thought to be unsuitable or inappropriate; esp. a marriage with a person of a lower social position. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of persons of unequal rank > with social inferior misalliance1738 left-handed marriage1760 mésalliance1782 hypogamy1946 1782 H. Walpole Let. 25 June We are well off when from that mesalliance there spring some bastards called Episodes. 1827 Hansard Commons 12 June 1255 An account of a union, or rather of what the French called a mésalliance between a man of colour and a white woman. 1879 Paris Sketch Bk. in W. M. Thackeray Wks. XVI. 41 In England..a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance [1840 misalliance] by marrying a painter. 1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. x. 161 It seems hardly likely that another prince will make a mésalliance for the sake of a Milovitch. 1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap xvii. 300 If she were right, a mésalliance need not be feared. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. xvi. 56 The friends protested, dismayed at such a mesalliance having been arranged for under, so to speak, their auspices. 1972 Q. Bell Virginia Woolf I. i. 20 When one of Julia's relations did make a really disastrous mésalliance the young couple were firmly but kindly removed to the colonies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1782
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