| 单词 | to marry above oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto marry above (also below, beneath) oneself (occasionally also one's match) c. intransitive. to marry above (also below, beneath) oneself (occasionally also one's match): to marry a person of higher (or lower) social position. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [verb (intransitive)] > marry with social inferior to marry (a person) with the left hand1700 to marry above (also below, beneath) oneself (occasionally also one's match)1721 to marry down1919 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [verb (intransitive)] > marry with social superior over-marry1610 to marry above (also below, beneath) oneself (occasionally also one's match)1721 to marry up1908 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 252 Marry above your Match, and you get a Master. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. i. 4 For who will offer to reproach me for marrying, as the World thinks, below me. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxix. 246 A Man, who..marry'd beneath him. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. xii. 257 Mary was in a state of mind..to be not displeased with her brother's marrying a little beneath him. View more context for this quotation 1860 A. J. Munby Diary 21 Feb. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 51 Saw Mrs Lock (herself considerably reduced in the world, being in fact a lady who married beneath her). 1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister III. xx. 336 He had married much above himself in every way. 1895 A. W. Pinero Second Mrs. Tanqueray iv. 160 All my family have chucked me over... Jus' because I've married beneath me. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxvii. 456 You laugh, my boy, you can't imagine marrying beneath you. You want a wife who's an intellectual equal. 1995 Independent on Sunday 12 Mar. (Review Suppl.) 25/1 A working-class boofhead with a wife who married beneath herself. < as lemmas |
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