unmarriage

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noun

Cohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.

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Meanings

noununmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural unmarriages)

plural unmarriages

  1. countableuncountableCohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.

    Of course, unmarriage isn't a guarantee of love everlasting any more than marriage is.

    2009, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time, volume 173, numbers 17-26
  2. countableuncountableThe condition of staying not married.

    If I sum up my statement thus: "Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many," […]

    2000, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Michael Wiley Perry, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Origin

From un- + marriage.

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APA

unmarriage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarriage

MLA

“unmarriage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarriage. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmarriage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarriage.

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