Proclamation or public notice given in church of an intended marriage, in order that those who know of any impediment thereto may have opportunity…
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > official announcements [verb (intransitive)] > proclaim banns (5) to ask (also bid, publish, put up) the bannsc1440 Proclamation or public notice given in church of an intended marriage, in order that those who know of any impediment thereto may have opportunity… proclaim1562 transitive. To publish (the banns of marriage). Also figurative. Cf. sense 6b. bid the banns1598 To proclaim, announce. Obsolete except in one or two archaic phrases, as ‘to bid the saints' days’: see 1725 at sense. In bid the banns, it is… shout1895 (in senses 1a–1e dialect) To publish the banns of marriage of (persons): = cry, v. 5d. Subcategories:— raise formal objection to banns (1) |
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