Meaning of præmarital | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of premarital.

alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“The absurdly low sentences against men convicted of assault, the utterly inadequate protection against seduction, the tolerance by society of a double⟳ standard of morals in the præmarital state, the advocacy, even by an eminent Judge⟳, of an inequality between man and woman in the laws of divorce — these are the things which give⟳ the lie⟳ to Sir Almroth Wright’s complacent assumption that “under this covenant a full half of the programme of Christianity has been realized.””

“If it is so, it is hard to understand⟳ why those people who allow⟳ præmarital freedom and do not enforce conjugal fidelity, should marry⟳ at all.”

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