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nounthe state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
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nounthe ceremony or sacrament of marriagetype of:
Definition that contains matrimony
- married joined in matrimony
- sacrament a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
- matrimonial law that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony