#wedlock__marriage__matrimony__union  state of being husband and wife; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
  supertype:  #marital_status  the condition of being married or unmarried
  subtype:  #bigamy.wedlock  having more than one spouse at a time
  subtype:  #common-law_marriage  a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony
  subtype:  #endogamy__intermarriage__inmarriage  marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
  subtype:  #exogamy__intermarriage  marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
  subtype:  #marriage_of_convenience  a marriage for expediency rather than love
  subtype:  #misalliance  an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
     subtype:  #mesalliance  a marriage with a person of inferior social status
  subtype:  #monandry  having one husband at a time
  subtype:  #monogamy__monogamousness__monogyny  having one wife at a time
     subtype:  #serial_monogamy  a succession of short monogamous relationships (as by someone who undergoes multiple divorces)
  subtype:  #open_marriage  a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other
  subtype:  #polyandry  having more than one husband at a time
  subtype:  #polygamy__polygyny  having more than one wife at a time

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