marrying-in
noun
The action of taking a spouse from within one's own community, religious group, etc.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), master of Balliol College.
- church order
- church-out
- church owl
- church pale
- church papist
- church parade
- church parader
- church parading
- church path
- church pennant
- church people
- church person
- church planting
- church pluralist
- churchquake
- church rate
- church reeve
- church register
- church rent
- church robber
- church-robbing
- church school
- church scot
- church service
- churchset