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Definition of Mésalliances
1. mesalliance [n] - See also: mesalliance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mésalliances
Literary usage of Mésalliances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the queens of England of the house of Hanover by John Doran (1855)
"... career—The soubriquet of the Butcher given him—Anecdotes of him—Marriage of
Caroline Matilda —Her married life unhappy—Dr. Struensee—Mesalliances of the ..."
2. The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization by Max Simon Nordau (1884)
"Let us analyze the conditions under which these two kinds of mesalliances are
usually contracted. A man of ancient lineage marries some wealthy plebeian in ..."
3. The French Revolution: Chapters from the Author's History of England During by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Henry Eldridge Bourne (1904)
"Necker writes consanguinity la haute noblesse on the subject: ' Indiquons en- et
les homines a grande fortune, core les mesalliances corn mo une la haute ..."
4. French and English: A Comparison by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1889)
"The rule against mesalliances in Class in jo England amounts to no more than
this, that the parties to the marriage ought to belong to the same monde, ..."