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premarital
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
premarital
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
premarital sex/sex before marriage (=sex happening before marriage)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pregnancy
▪ Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care, ten had premarital pregnancies.
▪ Brown and Harris highlight the girl's success in coping with her premarital pregnancy, Quinton and Rutter her planning ability.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Students were counseled about the dangers of premarital sex.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brown and Harris highlight the girl's success in coping with her premarital pregnancy, Quinton and Rutter her planning ability.
▪ He had a premarital dust-up with the woman who is now his wife, and the networks showed the video.
▪ Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care, ten had premarital pregnancies.
▪ One reason for the later age at marriage is the growing popularity of premarital cohabitation.
▪ Proposing that couples complete a premarital education program before receiving a $ 20 marriage license.
▪ The archbishop of Toledo refused to let her premarital jitters ruin a useful alliance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
premarital

also pre-marital, 1863, from pre- + marital. Phrase pre-marital sex attested from 1953.

Wiktionary
premarital

a. Before one’s marriage, before getting married. alt. Before one’s marriage, before getting married.

WordNet
premarital

adj. relating to events before a marriage; "prenuptial agreement" [syn: prenuptial, antenuptial] [ant: postnuptial]

Usage examples of "premarital".

This gorgeous, incredibly desirable woman is exuding premarital lust all over the place and that fool, Brewster, is simply sitting there and watching a monster movie on TV.

She chastised herself for being so persnickety when he did, in fact, have so many redeeming qualities, and attributed it to premarital jitters.

When anal sex, oral sex, premarital sex are all gleefully laughed about on prime-time TV, the peril of religious values infecting the culture would seem to be somewhat overrated.

Of course, despite her considerable premarital experience, Yasmin had been little more than a gifted amateur when she married Hafiz compared to what she knew now, but she couldn't imagine how, after tasting her own charms, Hafiz could so much as bear to look at that fat, ugly, insipid cow who was not fit to fill Yasmin's douche bag!

Without being so bold as to condone premarital sex, and without being so naive as to think you're all chaste angels, I will give you this bit of advice about your sex lives.