extramarriage

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English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ marriage.

Noun

extramarriage (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Marriage outside one’s own social group; exogamy.

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Adjective

extramarriage (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Outside of marriage, extramarital.
    • 1957, Seward Hiltner, Sex and the Christian Life: In which Seward Hiltner Draws from His Sex Ethics and the Kinsey Reports,"extramarriage", page 12:
      What does all this imply for sex in marriage, for premarriage or extramarriage sexual relationships, for sex for the unmarried, and other related matters?