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Meanings of out of wedlock in English

Of biological parents not married to each other.

Of unwed parents.

Synonyms
Examples for "outside marriage"
Examples for "outside marriage"
1
Today, more than a third of children are born outside marriage.
The Irish Times
2
When I was growing up, indeed, most sex behavior outside marriage was illegal.
Reuters
3
Sex outside marriage is illegal and many domestic workers are trafficked and abused.
Reuters
4
Amina Lawal was sentenced by an Islamic court for having sex outside marriage.
The Irish Times
5
How many men were emotionally wounded by society's hostile attitude to birth outside marriage?
The Irish Times
Usage of out of wedlock in English
1
Teen pregnancy out of wedlock is on the rise in the region.
Ebony
2
One hundred and six of the 709 were born out of wedlock.
Pushing to the Front
3
The difficulty for him is that he was born out of wedlock.
The Spinners
4
Having a child out of wedlock used to be unthinkable for women.
Silence of the grave
5
But she didn't want to live with a man out of wedlock.
Amazing grace
6
By illicit intercourse with women we mean, sexual intercourse out of wedlock.
The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction / Also Sex...
7
You've had marriages you never told me about, babies out of wedlock.
A good woman
8
Not polygamy that has many girlfriends and children in and out of wedlock.
The South African
9
He had been born out of wedlock never knew his father.
The new yorker
10
I'm a single parent whose child was born out of wedlock.
Day by day
11
And am a happy horse, too, though born out of wedlock.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
12
It is irrelevant if the child is born out of wedlock.
The South African
13
Are we to allow the third child to be born out of wedlock?
Night and Day
14
You will not continue to live with her out of wedlock?
Prince Eugene and His Times
15
The following year he fathered a child out of wedlock.
The Guardian
16
She said it wasn't fair to the baby to have it out of wedlock.
Family ties