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Usage examples of catena.

The Catenas of Anglican divines which occur in the series, though projected, I think, by me, were executed with a like aim at greater accuracy and method.

Comyn lord of the Ridenow Domain, so there is no reason you should not be married by the catenas, with all the festivity and merrymaking you might wish.

Valdir-Lewis Lanart-Ridenow, by my lawful wife di catenas, Marcella Ridenow.

Still, the thing on her arm looked nothing like the few catenas wristlets she had seen before.

She thrust her wrist out, to point out the absence of the catenas circlet which would have shown the status of a married woman.

He did not know of any di catenas marriages that were even remotely like that which the old man suggested.

The words drifted though her mind, and she remembered that Varzil had used that phrase to describe the copper catenas bracelets.

Her hand dangled over the arm of the chair, the now bright metal of the catenas bracelet shining in the firelight.

Allart had read at Nevarsin that there had been a time, soon after the establishment of marriage for inheritance and the catenas, when public consummation had been required, too.

This would mean I can never offer you what you should have in honor, the catenas and honorable recognition as my wife.

Delleray, called Rockhaven, and Dorilys, heir to Aldaran, were formally married by the catenas on midwinter night.

The important thing now is to give the Domain a legitimate, catenas heir, fathered in lawful marriage!

Say further to my brother that as for my daughter Dorilys, she is already wedded by the catenas, and he need not trouble himself to find a husband for her elsewhere.

Only one Comyn lord, as far as anyone knew, had actually married, di catenas and with full ceremony, a Terran woman.

Marriage di catenas, the ritual formalized marriage of the Domains, was a solemn joining of property, a mutual matter concerning two families, two houses, for the raising of children to inheritance and laran.