Meaning of mésalliance | Babel Free

Definitions

Marriage with a person of inferior social position.

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Examples

“The case is very different in England, where a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance by marrying a painter […]”

“He had been revolving in his mind the marriage question pending between Jos and Rebecca, and was not over well pleased that a member of a family into which he, George Osborne, of the —th, was going to marry, should make a mésalliance with a little nobody–a little upstart governess.”

“But this is too sanguine a belief. Instances of such mésalliance would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the Red Indians.”

“It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mésalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.”

“To a mésalliance of that kind every globule of my ancestral blood spoke in opposition.”

“But if you marry the old count you will make his last days happy, and as widow of the Grand...the prince would no longer be making a mésalliance by marrying you.”

“It was to save Bunson, it appeared, from a fatal mesalliance that he had taken the boots, which he described as a cast-off pair of Bunson's landlady, an aged lady who had given them to Bunson as a love gift.”

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