post-maritaladj.
/ˌpəʊstˈmarᵻtl/, U.S. /ˌpoʊstˈmɛrədl/ Occurring or enacted after marriage or after a marriage; used or provided for use after a couple's marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > [adjective] > after marriage
post-connubial1780
post-nuptial1807
post-marital1836
1836 Times 10 Feb. 6/5 Robert Harrison, from the Prerogative-office, produced..the deed of settlement, which was a post-marital contract.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vii. ii. 249 If Miss Tulliver..had returned as Mrs Stephen Guest—with a post-marital trousseau and all the advantages possessed even by the most unwelcome wife of an only son.
1903 R. Whiteing Let. 9 Feb. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) xi. 177 The love scenes, for such they are..though they are post marital.
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society p. xviii ‘Uxorilocal’ refers to the post-marital residence of a man in his wife's village.
2004 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) 22 Jan. 11 a A faith-based type of welfare-reform initiative that would seek to help the poor with premarital counseling or post-marital strife.
Derivatives
post-ˈmaritally adv.
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1952 Marriage & Family Living 14 66/2 Postmaritally, the counselor has maintained a good rapport with his client, which never could have occurred had he been obstructive in his early contacts with her.
1975 R. H. Rimmer Premar Exper. i. 111 They aren't fully aware of the impact that freer and open sexuality, premaritally and postmaritally, will have on human goals and values.
1996 Social Forces 75 740 Regrettably, we did not ask where respondents married, as they might have migrated postmaritally from a rural area to the capital city.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1836