mesalliance

NOUN
  1. a marriage with a person of inferior social status
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How To Use mesalliance In A Sentence

  • In like manner, the behavioral divorce from certain psychotherapy concepts (and alliance or mésalliance with others), has taken various forms.
  • Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
  • From the Armstrong point of view, Fee could only be said to have contracted a shocking mésalliance. THE THORN BIRDS
  • It had been a mésalliance contracted when both were young, and physical attraction had outweighed the differences of race and upbringing. THE QUEST FOR K
  • He belonged to a family of high rank and unbending pride which would brook no mésalliance, and yet wealth could no longer be considered secure except in plebeian hands. Indiana
  • I tell you, Mr. Le Noir, that your manner of speaking of my betrothal is equally insulting to myself, Doctor Rocke and my dear father, who never would have plighted our hands had he considered our prospective marriage a mésalliance. The Hidden Hand
  • It can only be that the union would be a shocking mésalliance, or surely he would simply propose - what fool would turn down the Ashton fortunes, lands, and looks?
  • It had been a mésalliance contracted when both were young, and physical attraction had outweighed the differences of race and upbringing. THE QUEST FOR K
  • All three of the sisters' marriages were considered hopeless mésalliances by the husbands' families at the time.
  • From the Armstrong point of view, Fee could only be said to have contracted a shocking mésalliance. THE THORN BIRDS
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