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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marital
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domestic/wedded/marital bliss
▪ six months of wedded bliss
marital difficulties (=in a marriage)
▪ You may need help in dealing with your marital difficulties.
marital fidelity (=in marriage)
▪ the importance of marital fidelity
marital happiness (=happiness that comes from being married)
▪ Does being similar to your wife or husband lead to marital happiness?
marital status
▪ Marital status: married/single/divorced
marriage/marital breakdown
▪ problems caused by the increase in marital breakdown
the marital home (=where a husband and wife live)
▪ He left the marital home to move in with his lover.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bed
▪ Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move in the marital bed.
▪ The two of them seemed so entirely unsuited to each other that I quickly discarded the unbidden image of their marital bed.
▪ Here he is sitting up in the marital bed, his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe.
▪ Knowing what I know now, I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job.
▪ The following morning, I prowled the furniture show and lay on eighteen different beds intended for the marital bed chamber.
▪ Her father moved into the marital bed, she and her husband moved downstairs.
▪ And she thought: What must it be like to go to one's marital bed with delight, instead of disgust?
bliss
▪ Tensions soon simmered beneath the impression of domestic harmony and marital bliss.
▪ I am not suggesting that shared parenting ensures marital bliss.
▪ Certainly they now boasted insistently of the marital bliss of their daughter and the solid Civil Service progress of their son.
breakdown
▪ There is little doubt, then, that the effect of marital breakdown upon the children of the couple concerned is multi-causal.
▪ Witness the rates of marital breakdown in the Western world!
▪ Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors - unemployment and marital breakdown.
▪ The second main factor is marital breakdown.
▪ No, they suffer from an altogether different, better class of marital breakdown.
▪ However, it is on marital breakdown that the crucial implications of this situation are particularly illuminated.
▪ The tenure of a person's housing has been shown to be a consequence of marital breakdown in many cases.
▪ However, it is also associated with excess risk as a cause of marital breakdown.
difficulty
▪ Divorce is no longer so shameful and is popularly seen as a permissible solution to marital difficulties.
▪ In particular they had considerably more marital difficulties, and were much more likely to be currently suffering from psychiatric disorder.
discord
▪ What was the relationship between new roofs and marital discord?
▪ His parents evidently did not suffer from drunkenness, gluttony, or excesses of marital discord.
fidelity
▪ He has been similarly evasive in answering questions about his marital fidelity and marijuana use.
▪ Contemporary interest in quail focuses more on their taste than on their promise of marital fidelity.
▪ Joined trees were objects of good omen; symbols of conjugal happiness and marital fidelity.
home
▪ He earlier stripped the couple's marital home in Grimsby, Humberside and sold the furniture.
infidelity
▪ A frequent cause is marital infidelity.
▪ There is an issue of marital infidelity.
problem
▪ These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems.
▪ Writing to the client would be out of the question too, because of her marital problems, even if her address were available.
▪ Also patron of brides and war; she is invoked against jealousy and marital problems.
▪ They had less secure and frequently changing employment, more marital problems, and less adequate accommodation.
▪ Ultimately there had to be added to the list her marital problems.
▪ Also invoked against marital problems and physical abuse.
rape
▪ While it could be very difficult to prove that you were raped before your marriage, proving marital rape may be possible.
▪ Two centuries after Hale's pronouncement, Pollock B. unequivocally expressed his support for the marital rape exemption in similar terms.
▪ It is unlikely that their enthusiasm for reporting marital rape would be much greater.
▪ Indeed, Wills J. appeared to query the very existence of a marital rape exemption.
▪ The Committee was not without its own misgivings about non-cohabitation as a prerequisite for prosecution for marital rape.
▪ In the thirteenth century context, liability for marital rape would clearly have been quite inconceivable.
▪ Separation is not always the factor which is chosen to delimit the marital rape exemption.
▪ Wives prepared to report marital rape to the police may well have husbands who fall into this category.
relationship
▪ A specific focus on the marital relationship apart from management of the child may be indicated.
▪ The marital relationship is equally problematic.
▪ They are powerful ways to strengthen your marital relationship, keeping it rich, rewarding, and fun.
▪ And what of the marital relationship, how much meaning and importance does this still have for the partners?
▪ She'd volunteered the information about Amy's marital relationships.
▪ In particular, they will often have an unsatisfactory marital relationship, a factor central to a woman's vulnerability to depression.
status
▪ Among the very elderly, 75 and over, the difference between the marital status of the sexes increases.
▪ California law prohibits housing discrimination based on marital status.
▪ In Western society an individual's marital status and occupational status are achieved.
▪ Even marital status was taken into consideration.
▪ Future trends in marital status Future trends in marital status are subject to some uncertainty.
▪ In 1981 there were marked differences in the marital status of men and women in the older age groups.
▪ But some policy issues may require identification of the effects of other variables such as age, qualifications and marital status.
▪ There are differences for women depending on marital status and the greater share of responsibility many women take for the care of children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Age, sex and marital status all affect earnings and income.
▪ It wasn't what you would call marital bliss, but it was a good, solid marriage.
▪ Many wives do not report acts of marital violence to the police.
▪ The police have the power to stop people holding their marital disputes in public.
▪ The stress of the job causes marital problems for many police officers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And our soulless moments of marital disconnection have robbed her of the outright gaiety that once counterpointed these darker spells.
▪ As children leave home marital satisfaction tends to pick up again.
▪ For an immigrant boy this marital alliance was no mean achievement.
▪ Some married couples seem to endure, maybe even enjoy, marital brawls.
▪ These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems.
▪ This was not a marital settlement agreement....
▪ True, unemployment has reached a record one-in-ten high, marital splits are up to one-in-three and the pound has been devalued.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marital

Marital \Mar"i*tal\ (m[a^]r"[i^]*tal), a. [F., fr. L. maritalis, fr. maritus belonging to marriage, n., a husband. See Marry, v.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority. [archaic] ``Marital affection.''
    --Ayliffe.

  2. Of or pertaining to marriage; matrimonial.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marital

c.1600, from French maritale and directly from Latin maritalis "of or belonging to married people," from maritus "married man, husband" (see marry).

Wiktionary
marital

a. 1 Pertaining to marriage. 2 (context obsolete English) Pertaining to a husband.

WordNet
marital

adj. of or relating to the state of marriage; "marital status"; "marital fidelity"; "married bliss" [syn: matrimonial, married]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "marital".

Therefore, Synnovea, you may ask the Countess Andreyevna if she will accommodate your new marital status as a personal favor to me.

Now little Bellamy had, after much anxious thought, just about this time come to a bold determination--namely, to asset his marital authority over Mrs.

So now she used all the exercises she had been taught, that first day and night, and then the various restimulating exotica prescribed for waning powers, and it was more than seven days in all before she awoke and found her husband gone from the marital couch.

State capable of foreclosing an action for maintenance or support in another may be different from that required to alter the marital status with extraterritorial effect.

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By subordinating the obligation to procreate, rejecting divorce, and implicitly sanctioning monogamous relationships, Jesus reverses traditional priorities, declaring, in effect, that other obligations, including marital ones, are now more important than procreation.

But one man threatens to make the journey intolerable: Sir Hugh of Sennet, an infuriating sergeant whose masculine presence stirs her most primal marital urges.

As was Wil Meyers who Janie said might have been the first to suggest the shivaree crowd help her new groom with his marital responsibilities.

I figured sooner or later Marty Anaheim would show up to straighten out his marital circumstances.

A career woman, marital artist, take-no-prisoners gal who now got mushy whenever her little baboo smiled at her.

Not the kind of depression that comes from stress at work, and grief, and marital difficulties, but biochemically induced stress, which would make the world seem bleak even in the most normal of times.

Her face was crimson, her nostrils uncontrollably flared and shrank, and the turbulent swelling of those beautiful bubbies showed unequivocally that this was perhaps the most sincere manifestation she had ever shown in the act of love, or so at least I could conjecture after what she had already disclosed concerning her frustrating marital experiences.

One night in Cholon, the Chinese quarter, at dinner with eight or nine of my male friends, she happened to ask each of them their marital status.

Esther Malkah never actually separated once they were reunited in marital misery after being apart during the years of the war.

This particular poll concerned the election chances of then-candidate Steinmetz under certain operating assumptions regarding his marital status.