morganatically

• a word derived from morganatic.
  morganatic

  adjective

  of or relating to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.

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morganatically

The Duke of Cambridge, cousin of Edward VII, who was married morganatically to Louisa Fairbrother in 1847.

From Time Magazine Archive

When she was 16, Maria del Pilar was married morganatically to Prince Francis de Bourbon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again the fable of a prince who loved madly but, for his country's sake, not morganatically.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea that his niece should be a German Baroness, married "morganatically" to a Prince, had already given him much to think about.

From The Europeans by Henry James

She was married to a mortal—true; but morganatically, I doubt it.

From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various

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