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单词 companionate marriage
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companionate marriage
1. Designating a type of marriage or formalized romantic relationship proposed in the 1920s, in which the partners do not intend to have children and have no legal responsibilities to one other, and which provides for the divorce or separation of a childless couple by mutual consent without legal hindrance. Chiefly in companionate marriage. Cf. companionate n. Now historical.
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Westminster wedding1660
customary marriage1871
hierogamy1882
companionate1924
companionate marriage1925
customary union1927
plaçage1937
gay marriage1957
open marriage1972
covenant marriage1990
1925 Jrnl. Social Hygiene Mar. 131 There are, in fact, at the present time innumerable marriages of the companionate type, the partners in which are animated by mere affection and do not want children.
1927 B. B. Lindsey & W. Evans Companionate Marriage p.v Companionate Marriage is legal marriage, with legalized Birth Control, and with the right to divorce by mutual consent for childless couples, usually without payment of alimony.
1932 B. Russell Educ. & Social Order ix. 125 Continence during the years of adolescence would impose no intolerable burden if there were a prospect that the necessity for it would ease at about..twenty. This could be secured by Judge Lindsey's system of companionate marriage.
1940 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Jan. 33/1 Then there is what a few years ago would have been called a companionate marriage with one of her fellow-students.
2004 A. P. Lyons & H. D. Lyons Irregular Connections vi. 171 The basic tenet that sexual intercourse might be acceptable without exclusive, lifetime commitment..was undoubtedly the reason for the opposition to companionate marriage.
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