marriage

• n. 結婚; 結婚生活; 緊密な結合、合併
• n.(結婚)人名;(英)結婚.

marry「結婚する」、-age「名詞の接尾辞」から。

marriage (n.)

c. 1300, "action of marrying, entry into wedlock;" also "state or condition of being husband and wife, matrimony, wedlock;" from Old French mariage "marriage; dowry" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *maritaticum (11c.), from Latin maritatus, past participle of maritatre "to wed, marry, give in marriage" (see marry (v.)). The Vulgar Latin word also is the source of Italian maritaggio, Spanish maridaje.

Meaning "a union of a man and woman for life by marriage, a particular matrimonial union" is early 14c. Meanings "the marriage vow, formal declaration or contract by which two join in wedlock;" also "a wedding, celebration of a marriage; the marriage ceremony" are from late 14c. Figurative use (non-theological) "intimate union, a joining as if by marriage" is from early 15c.

[W]hen two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition until death do them part. [G.B. Shaw, preface to "Getting Married," 1908]

Marriage counseling recorded by 1939. Marriage bed, figurative of marital intercourse generally, is attested from 1580s (bed of marriage is from early 15c.).

1. After a three-weekend courtship，Pamela accepted Randolph 's proposal of marriage .

3週末の追求を経て、パメラはルドルフのプロポーズを受けた。

2.After sixteen years of marriage they have grown bored with each other.

結婚して16年、彼らはだんだんお互いに飽きてきた。

3.Mr Olaechea has British residency by virtue of his marriage .

オライッチ氏は結婚を通じて英国での永住権を取得した。

4.He must have been aware that my parents ' marriage was breaking up.

彼はきっと私の両親の結婚が破綻することを知っているに違いない。

5.Support for monogamy and marriage was strongest among the professional classes.

プロ層は一夫一妻制を最も支持している。