unmarriage

English

Etymology

un- +‎ marriage

Noun

unmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural unmarriages)

1. Cohabitation of unmarried persons living as married couples.
   • 2009, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time‎^[1], volume 173, numbers 17-26:

     Of course, unmarriage isn't a guarantee of love everlasting any more than marriage is.

2. (of a person) The condition of staying not married.
   • 2000, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Michael Wiley Perry, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State‎^[2]:

     If I sum up my statement thus: "Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many," […]