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1865 Lancet 25 Mar. 322/1 All these evils are but symptoms and effects of the one great evil which we have lately felt it to be our duty to expose..—unmarriage.

1922 G. K. Chesterton Eugenics & Other Evils ii. 12 Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others.

1978 Amer Jrnl. Sociol. 78 976 If one accepts occupation and income as primary indices of socioeconomic class, a definite pattern is apparent in differential levels of female unmarriage among classes.

1996 Observer (Nexis) 16 June (Review section) 5 The ideological agenda behind this Bill is the desire to remove the distinction between marriage and unmarriage.

2013 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. (Late ed.) (Styles section) 6/2 Being gay does not make the terminology of unmarriage any easier. ‘I usually go with boyfriend, which makes people ask how long we've been dating.’

1973 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 14 Nov. 2 b/1 Sex before maturity often chains sensitive young people to an ‘unmarriage’ they no longer want, for they feel they've ‘given everything’.

1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 16 Aug. d2 More than a decade into their unmarriage.

2002 New Yorker 9 Dec. 50/1 After seven years together, they held what they called a ‘Commitvah’, at which they exchanged vows, drank from a kiddush cup, and handed out little bells that friends and family were asked to ring at the moment the unmarriage was sealed.

2010 Independent 18 June (Viewspaper section) 4/3 Those in successful unmarriages know that there is nothing more withering to the soul for two proud individuals to merge together like a couple of bits of soap and become one conjoined entity.