unmarriage

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ marriage.

Noun

unmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural unmarriages)

  1. Cohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.
    • 2009, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time, volume 173, numbers 17-26:
      Of course, unmarriage isn't a guarantee of love everlasting any more than marriage is.
  2. (of a person) The condition of staying not married.
    • 2000, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Michael Wiley Perry, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State:
      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," []