The woman's nature, stifled by its six years of coaxing marital repression, was asserting itself.
This fine woman, earnest, strong in character, intellectual, had tried ten years of marital hard times and quit the partnership with a daughter and a goodly dot.
The marital unhappiness, estrangement, and fragmentary incompleteness in the circle she knew, over which she had grieved and puzzled, had nothing to do with what novels mean by "unfaithfulness.
The betrothed parties are in some respects regarded as married, though not yet entitled to the marital rights nor bound to fulfil any of the mutual duties of conjugal life.
Mrs. Grant bears witness to the happiness and tranquillity of marital life in Albany.
They were even accused of repudiating the marital relation and of indulging on principle in licentious conduct.
A bondman might be made amenable to the law of banns and celebration; but his continued enjoyment of marital rights and family life was absolutely precarious.
A few years later, in Dale's code, appear the first marital regulations, though to what extent they were ever carried out must remain uncertain.
By this act full divorce is allowed only for adultery and desertion, including refusal of marital duty: and separation a thoro et mensa is not permitted even for saevitia.
They were married, and for some few months Mr. Emilius enjoyed a halcyon existence, the delights of which were, perhaps, not materially marred by the necessity which he felt of subjecting his young wife to marital authority.
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight--that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
Though always polite, it was his habit to receive such services with marital coolness, as his wife's duty.
McFarland has, in a practical sense, a sovereignty delegated to him, by the insane laws, almost as absolute as the marital power, which the law delegates to the husband.
So, in case where the marital fails, she can have legal protection, while married as well as when single.
They are bound not to violatemarital fidelity and to commit no act of public wrong.
In the comedies marriage was derided and marital honor treated with contempt.
Their neighbors, the Singhalese, have not pure marital customs and are not jealous.
The original languages must be, in comparison with our languages, like the wildest love-passion compared with marital custom.
Perhaps it may be held to apply to pre-marital duty, but it is doubtful whether he had that in mind.
In the unfolding of life, under ever new vicissitudes, it appears that it is a play of luck, or fate, what will come to any one out of the marital union with another.
This pair marriage is the ideal which guides the marital usages of our time and civilization, gives them their spirit and sense, and furnishes standards for all our discussions, although it is far from being universally realized.
The Servian bride is ashamed of her marital relation, and thinks it indecent to address her husband in public, even after she has borne him children.
Each pair, or other marital combination, has always chosen its own "ways" of living within the limits set by the mores.
Incest is the marital union of a man and a woman who are akin within the limits of a prohibition current at the time in the laws or mores of the group.
Richer people added instrumenta dotalia as documents to regulate property rights, and as proofs of the marital affection of the groom by virtue of which he meant to make the bride his wife, not his concubine.
As the old ceremonies become obsolete the property idea fades out of the marital relation, and the woman's exclusive devotion to her husband is no longer a rational inference from capture or purchase by him, but becomes a sentiment of sex.
Hence the customs arose which are now prevalent,--the concealment of all marital relations, the public ignoring of each other by the spouses, and the practical jokes and horseplay at weddings by boys and neighbors.
I am now merely pointing out the fact that in our compact with the government of the United States disruption of marital relations coming down to us out of the past constituted no part of that compact.
But they wouldn't be premarital with Tim unless he followed through and married Mrs. Bagley.
Jesus as gross immorality and dangerous to the state, they justify Gautama in his "renunciation" of marital and paternal duties.
When her marital relation ends she may elect to retain her marital or her original citizenship.
It may be added that his right to act as her agent is never implied solely from themarital relation.
The duty of a husband to provide a home implies his right to select and fix the marital abode.
Exciting tales would be told of their own adventures, in which, amid blithe sinning, marital fidelity asserted its modest worth.
Dull marital sorrow had long ago transformed her eyes, once beautiful, into two lustreless slits.
Note the extraordinary form in which the clergy are apparently forbidden to do what in reality the council commands; namely, that they should abandon marital relations with their wives.
But if he married before ordination he did not, except in the case of the bishops separate from his wife, but lived with her in lawful marital relations.
Evidently it was for the reason that they might not be able to maintain their marital relations with their wives, so that, adorned with a pure conscience, they might offer to God an acceptable sacrifice.
Moral lapses by men were frequent, and the same standard of marital rectitude was not required from them as from the women of the heroic days.
Hence the teachings of the Stagirite were doubtless based on examples of conjugal unity and felicity which he saw about him, and he extended to the Athenian people in general the views of marital relations that prevailed in his own circle.
The saddest incident of thismarital inequality that we find in Greek literature is the story of Alcibiades's wife, Hipparete, and her case shows how difficult it was for a wife to assert her rights.
The supreme problems of love, marriage, marital relations, divorce, and family life are far beyond the limited scope of character analysis for their complete solution.
In fact, many a young man and young woman have found the very characteristics which appeared most charming in a lover or sweetheart the ugly rock upon which marital happiness was wrecked.
Is he a man capable of performing his marital duties in the way I taught you?
The hero of a tale of marital revenge related by Lousteau, in 1836, to Mme.
He slept and ate there only occasionally and was very happy at not having the marital obligations and expense customary with married men.
About 1818 he tried to reassert hismarital rights.
Hostal once entertained Claude Vignon, Leon de Lora and Felicite des Touches, to whom he related the marital troubles of the Bauvans.
This bears some resemblance to the virginity tests of the Dakota, but applies more particularly to married women and maritalvirtue than otherwise.
It is also interesting to note that the Crane-woman who transfers the ritualistic attributes of these objects makes a formal declaration of her marital virtue.
They make four pauses on this journey, each time praying to the sun and asserting their marital rectitude and recounting such occasions as they have been improperly approached by a man.
In one version of this myth is the antagonistic implication that Elk-woman was not quite up to the standard of marital virtue.
Any available figures can comprise only such things as detected offences against the law, or registration of ex-nuptial births, or births which have resulted from pre-marital intercourse.
Pre-marital Relations= One aspect of the moral drift is the number of people who entertain the nebulous idea that it is somehow not wrong to have pre-marital relations or to live together as man and wife without marriage.
The changes were the increased use of contraceptives, the broadening of the divorce laws, an increase in pre-marital sexual relations, and the spread of new psychological ideas.
Rodney, with a marital brevity hardly to be expected so soon, commanded Sally to go into the house and to "shut up.
She was tempted to kiss him—they were not given to demonstrations, this pair—then decided it were kinder to him, less suggestive of what they anticipated, not to deviate from their undemonstrative marital routine.
To lovers, this indicates a swift rush into marital joys.
To dream of flying high through a space, denotes marital calamities.
Marital difficulties in bulk were beyond Diantha's comprehension, and she dropped the subject.
She is, however, rapidly awakening to the fact that she has an actual individual existence--as well as a potential marital existence; and is learning how to use and enjoy it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marital" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conjugal; husbandly; married; nuptial; wedded; wifely
