Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection III. Sympathetic Affections
1. Social Affections
903. Marriage.
NOUN:MARRIAGE, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, marriageability; vinculum matrimonii [L.], nuptial tie, nuptial knot; match; betrothment (promise) [See Promise]married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.
WEDDING, nuptials, Hymen, bridal, espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c. v.; nuptial benediction, epithalamium; sealing.
torch -, temple- of Hymen; saffron -veil, – robe; hymeneal altar; honeymoon.
bridesmaid, maid of honor, matron of honor; usher, best man, bridesman, groomsman; bride, bridegroom.
MARRIED MAN, neogamist [obs.], Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate, husband, man, consort, baron [old law & her.], goodman [archaic or dial.], old man.
MARRIED WOMAN, wife, wife of one’s bosom, wedded wife, rib [dial. & sportive], helpmeet, helpmate, better half, gray mare, goodwife [archaic or dial.], old woman [vulgar].
feme, – covert [law]; lady [obs. or uncultivated]; squaw; matron, matronship, matronage, matronhood.
MARRIED COUPLE, man and wife, wedded pair, wedded couple, Darby and Joan, Philemon and Baucis.
AFFINITY, soul-mate; spiritual wife, spiritual husband.
[KINDS OF MARRIAGE] monogamy, monogyny; bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy; trigamy; polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, polyandrism; Mormonism, spiritual wifery (or wifeism); levirate.
harem, seraglio; Mormon.
monogamist, monogynist, bigamist &c.; Turk, Bluebeard.
unlawful -, left-handed -, morganatic -, ill-assorted- marriage; mésalliance [F.], mariage de convenance [F.].
MARRIAGE BROKER, matchmaker, professional matchmaker, schatchen [Yiddish]; matrimonial -agency, – agent, – bureau.
VERB:MARRY, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced [colloq.]; go off, go to the world [obs.], pair off; wed, espouse, lead to the hymeneal altar, take “for better for worse,” give one’s hand to, bestow one’s hand upon.
marry, join, handfast [archaic]; couple (unite) [See Junction]; be made one; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give in marriage; seal; affy, affiance; betroth (promise) [See Promise]; publish -, call -, proclaim -, bid- the banns, be asked in church.
remarry, rewed; intermarry, interwed.
ADJECTIVE:MARRIED &c. v.; one, one bone and one flesh.
MARRIAGEABLE, nubile.
ENGAGED, betrothed, affianced.
MATRIMONIAL, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal; monogamous &c.
QUOTATIONS:
- The gray mare the better horse.
- A world-without-end bargain.—Love’s Labor’s Lost
- Marriages are made in Heaven.—Tennyson
- Render me worthy of this noble wife.—Julius Cæsar
- Si qua voles apte nubere nube pari.—Ovid
- He for God only, she for God in him.—Milton
- Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown!—Tempest
- Procure the vicar To stay for me at church twixt twelve and one.—Merry Wives
- Good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.—Tennyson
- Now sighs steal out and tears begin to flow!—Pope