Definition of premarital in English:
premarital
adjective priːˈmarɪt(ə)lpriˈmɛrədl
Occurring or existing before marriage.
Example sentencesExamples
- Screening was included as part of existing mandatory premarital blood tests.
- Consistent with changes in attitude toward premarital sex, researchers found a decrease in sexual guilt among young people of both genders.
- This book attempts to capture the paradoxes of marriage and to enhance premarital and remarital counseling.
- I told her I didn't believe in premarital sex, but she really didn't care.
- So she did not seem to be as concerned about the premarital agreement, and somehow had felt perhaps it would benefit her more than him, which did not turn out to be the case.
- Also, the younger and more educated the couples were, the more likely it was that they had had premarital sex.
- After the 1960s, the proportion of young people engaging in premarital sex rose dramatically.
- Sexual activity outside the marriage and premarital pregnancy rates were on the rise as well.
- Those who seek to justify premarital sex find it difficult to explain what marriage means, and what difference it makes to marry.
Derivatives
adverb
A 2004 study by psychologist Scott Stanley, based on a national phone survey of nearly 1,000 people, found that men who had lived with their spouse premaritally were on average less committed to their marriages than those who hadn't.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the early 1960s, 60 percent of all premaritally pregnant women under 30 married before the birth of their child.
Definition of premarital in US English:
premarital
adjectiveprēˈmerədlpriˈmɛrədl
Occurring or existing before marriage.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sexual activity outside the marriage and premarital pregnancy rates were on the rise as well.
- Consistent with changes in attitude toward premarital sex, researchers found a decrease in sexual guilt among young people of both genders.
- Also, the younger and more educated the couples were, the more likely it was that they had had premarital sex.
- Those who seek to justify premarital sex find it difficult to explain what marriage means, and what difference it makes to marry.
- This book attempts to capture the paradoxes of marriage and to enhance premarital and remarital counseling.
- After the 1960s, the proportion of young people engaging in premarital sex rose dramatically.
- Screening was included as part of existing mandatory premarital blood tests.
- I told her I didn't believe in premarital sex, but she really didn't care.
- So she did not seem to be as concerned about the premarital agreement, and somehow had felt perhaps it would benefit her more than him, which did not turn out to be the case.