英语词汇“morganatic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

morganatic

/ˌmɔːɡəˈnatɪk

adjective

Relating to or denoting a marriage in which neither the spouse of lower rank, nor any children, have any claim to the possessions or title of the spouse of higher rank: he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress...

As this was a morganatic marriage, their five children should not have been eligible for the succession.
A morganatic marriage is one between a member of the royal house and a wife not of equal birth, in which the wife does not take her husband's rank.
In advising Edward VIII against a morganatic marriage to Mrs Simpson he acted with the utmost constitutional propriety.

Derivatives

morganatically

adverb ...

An anonymous hand penned that the Queen had cancelled diary appointments because of her pregnancy by John Brown to whom she ‘has been morganatically married… for a long time?’
Isabella's first regent was her mother, who weakened her position by morganatically marrying a shopkeeper's son and by her reputation for ruthless greed.
His regular companion was now the pious Mme de Maintenon, who had been governess to the children of earlier mistresses; and soon after the queen's death he married her morganatically.

Origin

Early 18th century: from modern Latin morganaticus, from medieval Latin matrimonium ad morganaticam 'marriage with a morning gift' (because a morning gift, given by a husband to his wife on the morning after the marriage, was the wife's sole entitlement in a marriage of this kind).

单词	morganatic
释义	morganatic /ˌmɔːɡəˈnatɪk / adjective Relating to or denoting a marriage in which neither the spouse of lower rank, nor any children, have any claim to the possessions or title of the spouse of higher rank: he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress... As this was a morganatic marriage, their five children should not have been eligible for the succession. A morganatic marriage is one between a member of the royal house and a wife not of equal birth, in which the wife does not take her husband's rank. In advising Edward VIII against a morganatic marriage to Mrs Simpson he acted with the utmost constitutional propriety. Derivatives morganatically adverb ... An anonymous hand penned that the Queen had cancelled diary appointments because of her pregnancy by John Brown to whom she ‘has been morganatically married… for a long time?’ Isabella's first regent was her mother, who weakened her position by morganatically marrying a shopkeeper's son and by her reputation for ruthless greed. His regular companion was now the pious Mme de Maintenon, who had been governess to the children of earlier mistresses; and soon after the queen's death he married her morganatically. Origin Early 18th century: from modern Latin morganaticus, from medieval Latin matrimonium ad morganaticam 'marriage with a morning gift' (because a morning gift, given by a husband to his wife on the morning after the marriage, was the wife's sole entitlement in a marriage of this kind).
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