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Church engagement announcement
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banns
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Word definitions for banns in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ When I'd convinced myself that girl whose hand he held must be a relative, the banns were called.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
Usage examples of banns.
So it was that the Keepers of the Faith and the bedels gathered, and it was revealed to them by the Holy that there must be banns to control the relationship between the phyla.
The banns laid down by the Holy were as necessary on one world as on another, and surely the Holy presided over all creation.
Caledonia have remained stationary with our banns and our traditions, they have advanced in every direction.
John, every society I have ever heard of has had banns of one type or another.
It consisted in directing the clergyman to call in church the banns of marriage between Reginald Falcon and Rosa Staines.
Falcon took advantage of the opportunity, impregnated the father with his views, and got him to promise to have the banns cried next Sunday.
Oh, when I think that her folly drove me to sea, to do my best for her, and that I was nearer death for that woman than ever man was, and lost my reason for her, and went through toil and privations, hunger, exile, mainly for her, and then to find the banns cried in open church, with that scoundrel!
Everyone else in the castle she harangued with the same questions: how many banns had been posted, when, and where.
We posted those blasted banns in every village of over fivescore inhabitants.
Caithness, turned around, and come back, ripping down banns all the way, ranging like a maddened beast from Lowland to Highland.
Couples frequently lay together before and during the time banns were said.
Miss Pettifer, instructing him to commence the calling of the banns in your own parish also.
He for one was not at all certain that he could get through even one Sunday of banns without voicing violent objections.
She had been engaged to the Earl of Wendover, and it was after the banns had been read the third time that she eloped to Gretna with Lord Snelgar.
So three days calling the banns and negotiating the marriage contract.