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单词 mésalliance
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Definition of mésalliance in English:

mésalliance

noun mɛˈzalɪənsˌmeɪzəˈlaɪəns
  • A marriage with a person thought to be unsuitable.

    the loss of half a million francs only underlined the fact that her son was making a mésalliance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It can only be that the union would be a shocking mésalliance, or surely he would simply propose - what fool would turn down the Ashton fortunes, lands, and looks?
    • All three of the sisters' marriages were considered hopeless mésalliances by the husbands' families at the time.
    • Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
    • In like manner, the behavioral divorce from certain psychotherapy concepts (and alliance or mésalliance with others), has taken various forms.
    Synonyms
    discrepancy, lack of congruence, inconsistency, contradiction, incongruity, incongruousness, conflict, discord, irreconcilability, misalliance, mismarriage, bad match

Origin

French, from més- 'wrong, misdirected' + alliance (see alliance).

Rhymes

dalliance
 
 

Definition of mésalliance in US English:

mésalliance

nounˌmeɪzəˈlaɪənsˌmāzəˈlīəns
  • A marriage with a person thought to be unsuitable or of a lower social position.

    the loss of half a million francs only underlined the fact that her son was making a mésalliance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
    • In like manner, the behavioral divorce from certain psychotherapy concepts (and alliance or mésalliance with others), has taken various forms.
    • All three of the sisters' marriages were considered hopeless mésalliances by the husbands' families at the time.
    • It can only be that the union would be a shocking mésalliance, or surely he would simply propose - what fool would turn down the Ashton fortunes, lands, and looks?
    Synonyms
    discrepancy, lack of congruence, inconsistency, contradiction, incongruity, incongruousness, conflict, discord, irreconcilability, misalliance, mismarriage, bad match

Origin

French, from més- ‘wrong, misdirected’ + alliance (see alliance).

 
 
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