WordNet
outside marriage
adv. of unwed parents; "he was born out of wedlock" [syn: out of wedlock]
Usage examples of "outside marriage".
Polly was not one to sit in judgement on a man having an affair outside marriage.
She, more than any other, knew how women suffered from mating outside marriage, even when promises were made aplenty.
The second was a story of the love affair, outside marriage, of a middle-aged woman well known in Hillsborough society.
Bastardy was not a stigma as such -- illegitimate offspring shared inheritances with trueborn -- but Roelstra had sired such an embarrassing number of bastard daughters that the custom of fathering children outside marriage had gone out of fashion.