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Meanings of morganatic in anglès
(Of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior.
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Examples for "left-handed"
Examples for "left-handed"
1
Ireland has hundreds of left-handed golfers - enough to form a club.
2
Given the fact that you're left-handed, that strategy would be only half-effective.
3
Rosina, of course, looked exactly like me, except that she was left-handed.
4
Bad news for southpaws: left-handed sticks are not permitted in regulation play.
5
Tends to jump right, which will cost him at this left-handed track.
Usage of morganatic in anglès
1
The King was accompanied by his morganatic wife, the Countess of Miraflores.
2
This history of a morganatic marriage-itheld a faint ring of familiarity.
3
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
4
There is much misunderstanding in America as to these morganatic marriages.
5
It would be a kind of morganatic marriage then, politely tolerated.
6
There had been two children of the morganatic marriage, a son and a daughter.
7
The ceremony, which we call here a morganatic marriage, you have, probably, heard of before.
8
Prince Karl is in love with her and intends to force her into a morganatic marriage.
9
The Grand Duke soon ceased to care for his morganatic wife, but he never deserted her.
10
Prince Karl of Auersperg offers you morganatic marriage, and he thinks that he is honoring you.
11
Besides the queens there were the morganatic consorts.
12
Weber, however, had spoken of a morganatic marriage, and fearful pressure might be brought to bear.
13
The union of music with words is a morganatic marriage, in which the words must suffer violence.
14
In 1823, Alexander, Prince of Hesse and the Rhine, took in morganatic marriage a Countess von Hauke.
15
Mrs. Fitzherbert was not the sort of woman to give herself up readily to a morganatic connection.
16
Nothing but a morganatic marriage would be possible, and this would deprive his children of the throne.
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