mixed marriage

noun

1. a marriage between persons of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups, as between a Black person and a white person or between a Christian and a Jew.

mixed marriage

noun

1. a marriage between persons of different races or religions

mixed marriage

1. Marriage between two people who come from different cultural, national, racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds. Often, such marriages must withstand the scrutiny of both partners' families and social communities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mixed marriage¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

Yours was what is called a mixed marriage, and the Church does not favour such marriages, but it consented in this case, and why?

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So that a mixed marriage in Germany would almost always mean the crossing of two distinct types.

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She was the child of a mixed marriage, and her Christian mother had brought her up secretly in her own faith.

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I only meant a square party, a mixed marriage mingling of our different little conjugials.

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The subject of it is the old question of mixed-marriage, but treated from a new aspect.

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