Definition of Misalliance

1. Noun. An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage).

Generic synonyms: Marriage, Matrimony, Spousal Relationship, Union, Wedlock
Specialized synonyms: Mesalliance
Derivative terms: Misally

Definition of Misalliance

1. n. A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.

Definition of Misalliance

1. Noun. An unsuitable alliance, especially an unsuitable marriage ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Misalliance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misalliance

misaimed
misaiming
misaims
misalign
misaligned
misaligning
misalignment
misalignments
misaligns
misallegation
misallegations
misallege
misalleged
misalleges
misalleging
misalliance (current term)
misalliances
misallied
misallies
misallocate
misallocated
misallocates
misallocating
misallocation
misallocations
misallot
misallotment
misallotments
misallots
misallotted

Literary usage of Misalliance

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

1. Bernard Shaw, the Man and the Mask by Richard Burton, Bernard Shaw (1916)
"misalliance In the contention that Shaw's plays are not plays at all (meaning that some of them lack the familiar play physiognomy), this one-act piece ..."

2. Birth and Education by Marie Sofie Schwartz, Marie Adelaide (Brown) Shipley (1871)
"... her to have made a misalliance. My tenderness would have died out. I therefore acted right when I fled, rather than give way to my violent desires; ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"A misalliance WITH A PHYSICIAN.—American physicians will read with some interest and curiosity the following account of a matrimonial "misalliance" as given ..."

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