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UK
/pɹɪmˈæɹɪtəl/
]
[ US /pɹiˈmɛɹətəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɹiˈmɛɹətəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to events before a marriage
prenuptial agreement
How To Use premarital In A Sentence
- Set in Easter Ross, it follows the Bain family from David and Jean's premarital fumblings to the moment when their grown-up son sets off for a better life across the Atlantic.
- One of the most frequently named of them is 'incontinency', which seems to refer to either premarital or extramarital sex. OUPblog
- Even saints can be sinners, and as many studies have shown, divorce, premarital sex, and so forth are not significantly lower among religious Americans than among secular Americans.30 Rather, our interpretation is that religious Americans are readier to condemn all violations of conventional morality, including civic morality. American Grace
- This book attempts to capture the paradoxes of marriage and to enhance premarital and remarital counseling.
- Proposing that couples complete a premarital education program before receiving a $ 20 marriage license.
- The report, produced by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the high incidence of sexual abuse by priests reflected the growing aberrance of American society in general during that period, including "drug use and crime, as well as changes in social behavior, such as an increase in premarital sexual behavior and divorce. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Sexual License of the 1960s Does Not Excuse Pedophile Priests
- Monogamy and legal marriage are the norm, but extramarital and premarital relations are common.
- The premarital counselor or educator can use various strategies to aid couples in the development of and progression towards the shared vision for the marriage.
- I'm against premarital sex, so I never intend to marry any girl who sleeps with me.
- By 1708, eighty French backwoodsmen lived in the Natchez villages, enjoying ample food supplies and local customs that enjoined premarital sex for profit on young women building their trousseaus.