præmarital

English

Adjective

præmarital (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of premarital.
   • 1913, William Durran, The Lawyer, Our Old-Man-of-the-Sea (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.), page 433:

     The absurdly low sentences against men convicted of assault, the utterly inadequate protection against seduction, the tolerance by society of a double standard of morals in the præmarital state, the advocacy, even by an eminent Judge, of an inequality between man and woman in the laws of divorce — these are the things which give the lie to Sir Almroth Wright’s complacent assumption that “under this covenant a full half of the programme of Christianity has been realized.”

   • 1915, Folklore Society of Great Britain, Publications, volume 75, page 123:

     If it is so, it is hard to understand why those people who allow præmarital freedom and do not enforce conjugal fidelity, should marry at all.

Anagrams

• marital rape, parametrial