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Adjective
præmarital (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of premarital.
1913, William Durran, The Lawyer, Our Old-Man-of-the-Sea, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, page 433:The absurdly low sentences against men convicted of assault, the utterly inadequate protection against seduction, the tolerance by society of a double standard of morals in the præmarital state, the advocacy, even by an eminent Judge, of an inequality between man and woman in the laws of divorce — these are the things which give the lie to Sir Almroth Wright’s complacent assumption that “under this covenant a full half of the programme of Christianity has been realized.”
1915, Folklore Society of Great Britain, Publications, volume 75, page 123:If it is so, it is hard to understand why those people who allow præmarital freedom and do not enforce conjugal fidelity, should marry at all.
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