Definition of Civil marriage

1. Noun. A marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman.

Generic synonyms: Marriage, Marriage Ceremony, Wedding

Definition of Civil marriage

1. Noun. A marriage performed by a government official instead of by a member of the clergy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Civil Marriage

civil death
civil defense
civil discourse
civil disobedience
civil disorders
civil enforcement officer
civil enforcement officers
civil engineer
civil engineering
civil engineers
civil law
civil laws
civil leader
civil liberties
civil liberty
civil marriage (current term)
civil order
civil partnerships
civil power
civil procedure
civil right
civil rights
civil rights activist
civil rights leader
civil rights worker
civil servant
civil servants
civil service
civil services

Literary usage of Civil marriage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The edict of 1787 did not establish purely civil marriage for the benefit of Catholics, but only for that of non-Catholics. It was not until 1791 that the ..."

2. Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole, Lecky (1896)
"civil marriage was declared by Pius IX. to be ' a filthy concubinage.' ' Perrone, the chief Ultramontane expounder of the Catholic doctrines on matrimony, ..."

3. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud (1912)
"Modern civil marriage is distinguished by the presence of a public officer who ... civil marriage was admitted for the first time in Holland in 1580 through ..."

4. A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United by George Elliott Howard (1904)
"CROMWELL'S civil marriage ACT, i«a IT was not until the middle of the seventeenth ... Yet the civil-marriage act of 1653 is of extraordinary historical ..."

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