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An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
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misalliance
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Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw . The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead , Surrey in Edwardian era England . It is a continuation of some of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Misalliance \Mis`al*li"ance\, n. [F. m['e]salliance.] A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it. --Mrs. Browning.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The dominant supporting character is Lady Davers, who supplies an analysis of society's reaction to such a misalliance .
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n. an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
Wiktionary
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n. An unsuitable alliance, especially an unsuitable marriage. (from 18th c.)
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Also by ANITA BROOKNER A Start in Life Providence Look at Me Hotel du Lac Family and Friends A Misalliance A Friend from England Latecomers Lewis Percy Brief Lives A Closed Eye Fraud Dolly A Private View Incidents in the Rue Laugier Altered States Visitors Falling Slowly Anita Brookner VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc.
And worse than her own disappointment, borne no doubt with the utmost dignity, would have been the speculations of others in the trade, witnesses at those book fairs, viewing the misalliance with amused comments, the sort of comments with which unworthy candidates in the romantic game are usually dismissed.
Nigerian hospital, which was the usual polyester-tent-and-wood-hut misalliance, toward the river.
They had saved her at eighteen, but would they be able to forestall a misalliance at twenty?
Romantichalf of this misalliance of the Future and the Past is traceable to romantic-esthetic notions.
May Day orgy gave way to a misalliance between an Earl and a common woman of the glen, which led in three generations to the foundation of the Mayfair family.
I dare say that I thought as you do at the time when the stupid Parisians were saying what a misalliance the widow of the famous General de Beauharnais was making by marrying the unknown Buonaparte.
Her swarthy wanton little face, which was Portagee but was betrayed as a racial misalliance by the faintly slanted eyes, was a little irritated though.
The wrong people got married to each other, fought, made up despite police intervention, and while some eventually divorced, other misalliances ended in violent death.
Naturally, I pay no attention to her snobbish nonsense about misalliances, which is ridiculous and out-of-date.
No doubt a time will come when society, more enlightened, and therefore more reasonable, will acknowledge that noble feelings, honour, and heroism can be found in every condition of life as easily as in a class, the blood of which is not always exempt from the taint of a misalliance.
The wrong people got married to each other, fought, made up despite police intervention, and while some eventually divorced, other misalliances ended in violent death.
Sir Giles Wapshot’s family were insulted that one of the Wapshot girls had not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining baronets of the county were indignant at their comrade’s misalliance.