maritallyadv.
/ˈmarᵻtl̩i/, /ˈmarᵻtəli/, U.S. /ˈmɛrədl̩i/ As if married; in respect of marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adverb]
spousally?c1525
maritally1869
1869 Daily News 13 Feb. The illegitimate children are the offspring of people living maritally and as quietly as married people.
1880 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. Another of the prisoners, Kviatkoffsky, with whom she had been living maritally, according to Nihilist notions of ethics.
1936 C. Williams Queen Elizabeth I iii. 70 Elizabeth remained..(now Mary was maritally out of the way)..the best match in Europe.
1987 E. North Worldly Goods (1988) viii. 87 Everyone knew he had a terrible time maritally with a wife who was crippled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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