marital
of or relating to marriage; conjugal; matrimonial.
nonmarital
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a word derived from
marital.
Example Sentences
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Marvin, which ruled that unmarried partners could sue each other to enforce alleged promises or agreements made during their nonmarital relationship.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
That has a lot to do with the less rigid, more free-form nature of the nonmarital, nonfamilial friend relationship itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Adult relationships vary in form across societies and include not only the type most common around the world today — heterosexual monogamy — but also same-sex marriage, nonmarital unions, polyamory, polygyny and polyandry.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
Compared with urban hubs, rural populations tend to have less access to public health resources, less experience with syphilis and less willingness to address it because of socially conservative views toward homosexuality and nonmarital sex.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2019
Our current regime was inspired by a belief that these fathers “care little about, and have scant contact with, their nonmarital children.”
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2017
