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Definition of Morganatically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morganatically
Literary usage of Morganatically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"morganatically ! You mean one wife and then marry someone also for Queen ?
VICTORIA. Yes. Jo. Well ! The only American girl that sort of a Crown Prince ..."
2. Caroline, the Illustrious Queen-Consort of George II, and Sometime Queen by William Henry Wilkins (1904)
"It was rumoured that the King morganatically married the Duchess of Kendal soon
after Sophie Dorothea's death, and that the Archbishop of York performed the ..."
3. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"A prince may morganatically marry whom he pleases, but a crown can only descend
to the offspring of a marriage controlled by public law of a special kind. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... hitherto princess regent, the reins of government than he married the apothecary's
daughter ; not morganatically, for if he had been satisfied with such ..."
5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"... of King Ferdinando II of Naples; he was married morganatically on July 1,
1900, to the Countess Sophia Cho- ti-k, who became later Duchess of Hohenberg. ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... [1848-1850 AD] pendent ou a woman of low birth to whom he was morganatically
married, the king soon became a mere tool in the hands of the parties, ..."
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