bid the banns; be asked in church. 
     Adj. married &c. v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable,
nubile.
     engaged, betrothed, affianced.
     matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal,
spousal, bridal. 
     Phr. the gray mare the better horse; “a world-without-end bargain”
[Love’s Labor’s Lost]; “marriages are made in Heaven” [Tennyson]; “render me worthy of this noble wife” [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari [Lat][Ovid].

     #904.  Celibacy. —­ N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness;
bachelorhood, bachelorship[obs3]; misogamy[obs3], misogyny.
     virginity, pucelage[obs3]; maidenhood, maidenhead.
     unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist[obs3], old bachelor;
misogamist[obs3], misogynist; monogamist; monk.
     unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;virgin, feme sole[Fr], old
maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun. 
     V. live single, live alone. 
     Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded[obs3]; wifeless, spouseless[obs3];
single.

     #905.  Divorce. —­ N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial
separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro[Lat], separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat].
     trial separation, breakup; annulment.
     widowhood, viduity[obs3], weeds.
     widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass
widower; merry widow. 
     V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse[obs3], put away; wear
the horns.

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     #906.  Benevolence. —­ N. benevolence, Christian charity; God’s love,
God’s grace; good will; philanthropy &c. 910; unselfishness &c. 942.
     good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c. adj.;
loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy:  goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love &c. 897; friendship &c. 888.
     toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy &c. (pity) 914.
     charitableness &c. adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence,
“the luxury of doing good” [Goldsmith].
     acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good
treatment, kind treatment.
     good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant[Fr]; altruist. 
     V. be benevolent &c. adj.; have one’s heart in the right place, bear
good will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with, empathize with, feel for; fraternize &c. (be friendly) 888.
     enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet
halfway.
     treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good