Crossword-Solution: MESALLIANCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mesalliance | n. | A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MESALLIANCE | anagram | MISCELLANEA |
We have 5 clues for the answer “MESALLIANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A marriage to a person of a lower social class | 1 answer |
| Kin of a morganatic marriage | 1 answer |
| Unfavored combination. | 1 answer |
| a marriage with a person thought to be of inferior social position; an unsuitable union | 1 answer |
| A MARRIAGE WITH A PERSON OF INFERIOR SOCIAL STATUS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
ROCEETL
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with MESALLIANCE (5)
Stanhope is connected with the English Stanhopes, the mesalliance must be laid to his charge.” “Indeed the Dennings have some pretenses to good lineage, and Bryce spoke of his sister ‘disgracing his family by her contemplated marriage.’” “His family! My dear Ethel, his grandfather was a manufacturer of tin tacks.
Mirabeau had reason to say: “There has been but one mesalliance in my family,--that of the Medici”; for in spite of the paid efforts of genealogists, it is certain that the Medici, before Everardo de’ Medici, _gonfaloniero_ of Florence in 1314, were simple Florentine merchants who became very rich.
Instances of such ‘mesalliance’ would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the Red Indians.
Wealth, honours! Would she have given up a life of ease, shut herself off from society, if these had been her standards? "_Mesalliance_!" Had the male animal no instinct, telling it when it was loved with all a woman's being, so that any other union would be her degradation.
What mesalliance can there be, father? I never have believed and never shall believe in the cruel laws of caste.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1991).