Matrimony Sentence Examples

Which made three times you were broaching the subject of matrimony and I thwarted your attempts.

Was I truly ready for matrimony?

Frederick's youthful, innocent attachment to the daughter of his former tutor, Anna Hardenberg, indisposed him towards matrimony at the beginning of his reign (1558).

The tendency of a community towards matrimony, or its "nuptiality," as it is sometimes termed, is usually indicated by the ratio to the total population of the persons married each year.

The sign of the cross was to be made not only in the eucharistic consecration prayer, but also in Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Matrimony and the Visitation of the Sick.

We do not need to be reminded that Beatrice's adorer had a wife and children, or that Laura's poet owned a son and daughter by a concubine, in order to perceive that the mystic passion of chivalry was compatible in the middle ages with commonplace matrimony or vulgar illegitimate connexions.

In his Summa he declares that as there are seven chief sins, either original or of act, so there must be seven sacraments to remedy them; but he only enumerates six, namely baptism and the sacraments of confirmation, of the altar, of penance, last unction and matrimony.

The distinction, be it noted, of form and matter seems more appropriate to the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, confirmation and last unction, than to those of orders, penance and matrimony.

The French government would not yield, and Walsingham came back, to be followed by Anjou who sought in personal interviews to overcome Elizabeth's objections to matrimony.

By the general Western canon law before the council of Trent, the parties themselves were said to be the " ministers of the Sacrament " in the case of holy matrimony.

The declared consent of the parties to take each other there and then constituted at once (although irregularly) holy matrimony.

Eleanor Bold appeared before him, no longer as a beautiful woman, but as a new profession called matrimony.

And now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

Did they think they could arrive in holy matrimony together at the pristine war clinic where everyone is saved?

This newest bastard stepchild from the unholy matrimony of Daimler Benz and Chrysler just plain looks like ass.

The outlines of her foreign policy are sketched elsewhere (see English History), and her courtships were diplomatic. Contemporary gossip, which was probably justified, said that she was debarred from matrimony by a physical defect; and her cry when she heard that Mary queen of Scots had given birth to a son is the most womanly thing recorded of Elizabeth.

Matrimony may be postponed, or, when entered upon, may be rendered a lighter burden upon the breadwinner.

He had offered no obstacle in 1704 to a match proposed for Stella to Dr William Tisdall of Dublin, and, with his evident delight in the society of the dark-haired, brighteyed, witty beauty - a model, if we may take his word, of all that woman should be - it seemed unaccountable that he did not secure it to himself by the expedient of matrimony.

The Catholic Church considers baptism as one of the seven sacraments, which also includes the Holy Eucharist, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony, and Anointing of the Sick.

A fall wedding can be a lovely event, and couples who plan on decorating an aisle for a fall wedding are taking their first steps into matrimony down a breathtaking aisle that will be a memorable and romantic path for them to walk together.

Please honor us, Meredith Anne Jones and Jonathon Francis Wade, with your presence as we join together in holy matrimony on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Secret surprises such as a box of chocolates, delivered flowers, satin sheets, or other luxurious treats can make the first few days of matrimony memorable without breaking the bank.

Pave set platinum wedding bands are a stylish, elegant design for diamond wedding rings, and are rapidly becoming one of the most sought after styles for couples to express their matrimony.

Engagement party favors are a fun gift to give the family members and friends who gather to wish a newly engaged couple congratulations as they begin their journey toward matrimony.

We are told that the universal example of his colleagues, rather than any desire for female society, impelled him to matrimony; his choice being a lady of the Conti family, who, by his request, joined him at Berlin.

Under Ferdinand the parochial clergy were tempted to become Lutherans by the prospect of matrimony, and, in reply to the remonstrances of their bishops, declared that they would rather give up their cures than their wives.

In the above countries, therefore, abstinence from matrimony may be said to have been a factor of some importance in the decline.

His views on the independence of civil rule were even more decidedly expressed in the Tractatus de jurisdictione imperatoris in causis matrimonialibus, in which, in spite of the medieval idea that matrimony is a sacrament, he demands that it belongs to the civil power to decide cases of affinity and to state the prohibited degrees.

Truculent pamphieteers like Simon Fish, who wrote Beggars Supplication, were already demanding that these sturdy boobies should be set abroad into the world, to get wives of their own, and earn their living by the sweat of their brows, according to the commandment of God; so might the king be better obeyed, matrimony be better kept, the gospel better preached, and none should rob the poor of his alms. It must be added that monastic scandals were not rare; though the majority of the houses were decently ordered, yet the unexceptionable testimony of archiepiscopal and episcopal visitations shows that in the years just before the Reformation there was a certain number of them where chastity of life and honesty of administration were equally unknown.

The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.