mismarriage

mismarriage

(mɪsˈmærɪdʒ)
n
an unsuitable marriage
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She wrote a chick lit novel Mrs MisMarriage (Marshall Cavendish International Editions, Singapore, 2008), published under her married name Noelle Chua, and co-edited another flash fiction collection, Fast Food Fiction Delivery: Short Short Stories to Go, also for Anvil in 2015.
Thus, what Leavis calls the "mismarriage" of words keeps language from settling in a crystallized moment in history.
Because the Roman Catholic king of Bavaria was the actual head of the Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Loehe called "the connection between state and church an unfortunate mismarriage." (31) And with regard to the revolution of 1848, when people were clamoring for more democratic rights, Loehe predicted: "Now it [the union of state and church] is dissolving.
The mismarriage of bargaining theory and distributive justice.
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